Abnormal Gastrointestinal Accumulation of Radiotracer by Gastric Bleeding During 99mTc-MDP Bone Scintigraphy.
- Author:
Kyu Bo LEE
;
Jae Tae LEE
;
Kyung Ah CHUN
;
Sang Woo LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Gastric bleeding;
99mTc-MDP;
Bone scintigraphy
- MeSH:
Endoscopy;
Gastritis;
Hemorrhage*;
Humans;
Radionuclide Imaging*;
Technetium Tc 99m Medronate*
- From:Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
1998;32(2):168-171
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We present a case in which a patient with acute hemorrhagic gastritis demonstrated abnormal gastrointestinal accumulation of radiotracer during Tc-99m-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) skeletal scintigraphy. A hemorrhage gastritis was subsequsently demonstrated by endoscopy. The menchanism for the intestinal localization of Tc-99m-MDP in this patient is not clear, but we guess that the extravasated blood containing the radiopharmaceutical cannot recirculate and stays at the bleedings site, so we can see the intestinal activity.
