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Focal Iatrogenic Increased Radiocolloid Uptake on Liver Scan

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Correspondence: For reprints contact : Herbert D. Helbig, Div. of Nuclear Medicine, Dept. of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27710.

ABSTRACT

Increased focal hepatic uptake of ^99mTc-sulfur colloid was observed in a patient in whom the tracer dose was injected through a central venous catheter malpositioned in one of the hepatic vein branches. A followup scan was negative. It is postulated that the "hot-spot" was caused by flooding of a localized area of liver reticuloendothelial cells with radiocolloid or by adherence of the radiocolloid to clot or inflamed venous endothelium.