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Letters and Comments1 November 1968FALSE-POSITIVE LIVER SCANDANIEL H. GREGORY, M.D.DANIEL H. GREGORY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-69-5-1075_1 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the Editor: I should like to endorse the position set forth in the recent presentation by Klion and Rudavsky, "False-Positive Liver Scans in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease" (Ann. Intern. Med. 69: 283, 1968). It has also been our experience that hepatic scintillation scanning in the presence of cirrhosis is of little clinical value and, indeed, often quite misleading.The most striking example of a false-positive liver scan that we have recently encountered was in a patient with hypersplenism secondary to Laennec's cirrhosis. A liver scan was performed with sulfur colloid labeled with 1 mc of tc99. All of... This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 November 1968Volume 69, Issue 5Page: 1075-1075KeywordsCirrhosisLiverLiver diseases Issue Published: 1 November 1968 PDF downloadLoading ...
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