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Tc-99m IDA Cholescintigraphy in Acute Pancreatitis: Concise Communication

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Amjad Ali, Section of Nucl. Med., Dept. of Diag. Radiol. and Nucl. Med., Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Med. Ctr., 1753 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612.

ABSTRACT

Recently it has been suggested that cholescintigraphy is unreliable in the detection of acute cholecystitis when acute pancreatitis is present. During a recent 17-month interval, twenty-one patients with a firmly established diagnosis of acute pancreatitis underwent cholescintigraphy in our laboratory. The gallbladder failed to visualize in only five cases, all of whom had acute cholecystitis. These data, and those available in the literature, lead us to conclude that cholescintigraphy is useful in the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis whether or not acute pancreatitis is present.