PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Majmundar, Haresh
AU  - Chrys, Royce A.
AU  - Braunstein, Phillip
TI  - Unusual Liver-Spleen Scan Findings
DP  - 1991 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 81--82
VI  - 19
IP  - 2
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/19/2/81.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/19/2/81.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1991 Jun 01; 19
AB  - Radioisotope scintigraphy is a widely used procedure for the evaluation of various forms of liver disease. It provides information regarding the size, shape, and position of the liver, as well as identification of any space-occupying lesions of the liver or spleen (1–4,6–8). The amount of radiocolloid clearance in liver, spleen and bone marrow depends on the distribution of radioactivity in reticuloendothelial (RE) tissue, the degree of liver disease and its effect on relative blood flow (1,9,10). We present an unusual liver-spleen scan demonstrating delayed clearance of blood-pool activity due to portal hypertension and consequent severe RE shift to spleen and bone marrow (1,5,11–13).