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KMID : 0363819930270020315
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Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
1993 Volume.27 No. 2 p.315 ~ p.320
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7 Cases of Incidental Radionuclide Uptake in the Gastrointestinal Tract During 99mTc-Methylene Diphosphonate Bone Scintigraphy
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손태용
김형건/유영진/이상구/천은미/임상무/홍성운
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Abstract
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We experienced 7 cases of patients who were performed 99mmTc-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy for the evaluation of disease they had. Their bone scintigrams showed incidental radionuclide uptake in the gastrointestinal tracts and they
had
no
special symptom or sign attributable to the findings. Case 1 showed radionuclide uptake in the stomach and both lung and the patient had suffered from hypercalcemia and azotemia. Case 3 and case 6 showed diffuse radionuclide uptake in the stomach
and
intestinal tract. Others showed diffuse or regional radionuclide uptake in the intestinal tracts.
Radionuclide uptake in the gastrointestinal tract by 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate is caused by a certain pathologic lesion but also can be seen in the normal gastrointestinal tract. So, one who reads bone scintigrams should be alert for the
pathologic
lesion in the gastrointestinal tract although one must interpretate with the concept of this normal variations.
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