RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Accidental Small-Bowel Puncture, and Importance of Patient Positioning, During Isotopic Peritoneography: A Case Report
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 163
OP 164
VO 31
IS 3
A1 Spieth, Michael E.
YR 2003
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/31/3/163.abstract
AB A 47-y-old woman with chronic liver disease, who had previously undergone placement of a peritoneal venous shunt without ascites, presented with a chronic right pleural effusion. The first attempt at radionuclide injection resulted in an accidental small-bowel injection with consequent intraalimentarily induced nuclear small-bowel followthrough. I have not read of this interesting complication in the literature. She did not have a bowel obstruction. A repeated study 2 d later demonstrated an obstructed peritoneal shunt and right hemidiaphragmatic pleural leak best seen with the patient upright.