[Scintigraphy in detecting suppurative-septic foci in the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space].

Abstract

Positive results of the use of 99mTc-pyrophosphate in 91.9% of patients with pyoseptic foci of various sites prove a regular character of increased accumulation of this agent in abscesses and permit recommending this method as a screening test in their indefinite localization. If the foci are localized in the liver, positive scintigraphy should be supplemented by negative scintigraphy of the liver, increasing the diagnostic value of radionuclide methods.

• Authors: T I Il'nitskaia, O G Siniakova
• Journal: Meditsinskaia radiologiia (Med Radiol (Mosk)) Vol. 34 Issue 12 Pg. 18-21 (Dec 1989) ISSN: 0025-8334 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Stsintigrafiia v vyiavlenii gnoĭno-septicheskikh ochagov v briushnoĭ polosti i zabriushinnom prostranstve.
• PMID: 2557522 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Diphosphates
• Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
• Technetium

Topics

• Abdomen (diagnostic imaging)
• Abscess (diagnostic imaging)
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Diphosphates
• False Negative Reactions
• False Positive Reactions
• Focal Infection (diagnostic imaging)
• Humans
• Middle Aged
• Retroperitoneal Space (diagnostic imaging)
• Technetium
• Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
• Tomography, Emission-Computed