Resumen
Nuclear medicine (NM) can play important primary and secondary roles in diagnosis and management in the emergency setting. Within the radiological armamentarium, selected scintigraphic examinations offer significant value because those negative examinations exclude diagnoses with high certainty, while positive examinations direct appropriate management. Currently, common radionuclide imaging examinations of the thorax and abdomen in the emergency setting include ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) lung scintigraphy, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBS), radiolabeled RBC gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding study, and Meckel's diverticulum scintigraphy.
| Idioma original | English |
|---|---|
| Título de la publicación alojada | Emergency Radiology |
| Subtítulo de la publicación alojada | Imaging of Acute Pathologies, Third Edition |
| Páginas | 195-214 |
| Número de páginas | 20 |
| ISBN (versión digital) | 9783031657702 |
| DOI | |
| Estado | Published - ene 1 2024 |
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Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
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