METHODS From June, 1981 to August, 1982, 211 patients with acute right upper quadrant
or epigastric pain (< 5 days) underwent Cholescintigraphy within 48 hr of hospital …

Cholescintigraphy was performed in 113 patients of whom 38 had normal gallbladders, 37
had acute cholecystitis and 38 had chronic cholecystitis. The radiopharmaceuticals used in …

Selected papers published over the past year in the areas of radionuclide hepatobiliary
imaging, gastric emptying, and gastrointestinal bleeding are reviewed. Two advances in …

M":"" coLEscINTIGRAPHY has been shown to be an accurate means of confirming the
clinical impression of acute cholecystitis. Morphineaugmented cholescintigraphy's sensitivity …

Five hundred patients with acute right-upper-quadrant pain underwent biliary scintigraphy
with 99mTc paraisopropyliminodiacetic acid. One hundred and thirty-four studies were …

The efficacy of 99m Tc cholescintigraphy in the diagnosis of gallbladder disease was
studied in 116 patients. Sixty-one demonstrated gallbladder visualization (normal) and 55 …

A prospective comparative study was made of 99mTc-HIDA cholescintigraphy and 24-h
infusion cholecystography for the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. The material comprised …

Technetium-99-m-diethyl-IDA (Solco HIDA) cholescintigraphy was performed on 50 patients
with suspected acute cholecysitis. The final diagnosis was acute cholecytitis in 34 cases …

Conventional cholescintigraphy (60 patients) and a modified protocol (59 patients) were
compared in 74 females and 45 males with acute cholecystitis. In the modified protocol …

4. WEISSMANN HS, FRANK MS, BERNSTEIN LH, et al: Rapid and accurate diagnosis of
acute cholecystitis with 99mTc-HIDA cholescintigraphy. Am J Roenlgenol 132: 523-528 …