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Nuclear Medicine
Modalities
of Liver Imaging
Nuclear Medicine
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- Not routinely used to evaluate liver
disease
- Technetium 99m-labeled red blood cell single photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT) can be helpful in evaluation of possible
hemangioma larger than 2 cm.
- Sulfur colloid liver-spleen imaging can
be used to confirm a lesion that contains Kupffer cells as in focal
nodular hyperplasia (FNH). Hepatic adenoma and hepatocellular
carcinoma do not contain Kupffer cells, thus will be "cold" on this
study.
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