PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rodrigue, Paul
AU  - Fakhri, Asif
AU  - Baumgartner, Andrew
TI  - Gallbladder Fossa Abscess Masquerading as Cholecystitis After Cholecystectomy
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.115.155606
DP  - 2015 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 295--296
VI  - 43
IP  - 4
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/43/4/295.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/43/4/295.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2015 Dec 01; 43
AB  - We present a case of a 59-y-old woman who had undergone cholecystectomy and was subsequently found to have an abscess within the gallbladder fossa. A hepatobiliary scan using 99mTc-diisopropyliminodiacetic acid demonstrated the characteristic rim sign, a photopenic defect surrounded by a rim of mildly increased activity immediately adjacent to the gallbladder fossa. The rim sign was thought to be the result of reactive inflammation in the hepatic tissue adjacent to a postoperative abscess within the gallbladder fossa.