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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 33 No. 2 256-257
© 1992 by Society of Nuclear Medicine
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False-Negative Morphine-Augmented Cholescintigraphy: A Case of Subacute Gallbladder Perforation

Dwight M. Achong, Joel S. Newman and Elizabeth Oates

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Dwight M. Achong, MD, Box 228, New England Medical Center, 750 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111.

ABSTRACT

The gallbladder and an infected pericholecystic biloma secondary to subacute perforation were visualized during morphine-augmented Cholescintigraphy. Perforation of the gall-bladder may relieve cystic duct obstruction and contribute to false-negative visualization in the setting of acute cholecystitis.






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