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Analysis of Liver Scanning in a General Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Zvi H. Oster, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Md. 21205.

ABSTRACT

The specificity and sensitivity of liver scanning in a general referral population of 125 patients was studied. All patients had a liver biopsy prior to the scan or not more than 10 days later. The results of this study were compared with one earlier and one ongoing study in the same laboratory. The differences in accuracy are mostly attributable to the difference in the populations studied. It is apparent that the multiple-view scintillation camera technique is not superior to the rectilinear two-view scans for studying the liver.