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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 14 No. 2 113-114
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An Interesting Artifact in Radionuclide Imaging of the Kidneys

Kenneth A. McKusick, Leon S. Malmud, Peter T. Kirchner and Henry N. Wagner, Jr.

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Kenneth A. McKusick, Div. of Nuclear Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Md. 21205.

ABSTRACT

An artifactural area of increased activity in a kidney scan obtained with 99mTc-DTPA is attributed to gastric secretion of free technetium. The presence of such artifacts may be suspected from images of either the neck or abdomen obtained after the kidney scan.






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