RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gallbladder Fossa Abscess Masquerading as Cholecystitis After Cholecystectomy
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 295
OP 296
DO 10.2967/jnmt.115.155606
VO 43
IS 4
A1 Rodrigue, Paul
A1 Fakhri, Asif
A1 Baumgartner, Andrew
YR 2015
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/43/4/295.abstract
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.