PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jacobson, Arnold F.
AU  - Williams, Walter H.
TI  - Central Venous Catheter Scintigraphy Using a Slow Radionuclide Infusion: Case Report
DP  - 1990 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 245--247
VI  - 18
IP  - 4
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/18/4/245.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/18/4/245.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1990 Dec 01; 18
AB  - Radiologic investigation of malfunctioning central venous catheters is conventionally performed using a bolus injection of either radiographic contrast material or a radionuclide solution. An alternative scintigraphic technique employing a slow radionuclide infusion is described. The association between retrograde flow in an obstructing fibrin sleeve and leakage from a central venous catheter is better demonstrated using this technique than with imaging after a bolus injection.