ISSN:
1573-2568
Keywords:
postcholecystectomy pain
;
biliary kinetics
;
hepatobiliary scintigraphy
;
HIDA
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Biliary pain without obvious biliary obstruction is common in postcholecystectomy patients. We studied 20 symptomatic patients with episodes of biliary-type pain after cholecystectomy (all having undergone endoscopic retrograde cholangiography), and in 18 asymptomatic postcholecystectomy controls. We performed quantitative hepatobiliary radionuclide analysis with dimethyl-imidodiacetic acid. From a series of 90 dynamic images at 1-min intervals using a gamma camera coupled to a computer, time-activity curves were produced in regions of interest in the liver, intrahepatic biliary tree, common duct, and heart, from which quantitative biliary excretion indexes were obtained. The results demonstrate a biliary kinetic dysfunction in patients with postcholecystectomy pain without morphological abnormalities.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01318203
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