A Study of Hepatic Amebiasis by Radioactive Rose Bengal Scanning of the Liver
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 15 (1) , 16-21
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1966.15.16
Abstract
Summary A group of 37 patients which included 6 positive control cases of amebic abscess of the liver and 31 patients with suspected hepatic amebiasis were investigated by hepatic scanning, using I131 Rose Bengal (tetraiodotetrachlorfluorescein) as the tracer agent. A minor but helpful differential pattern of focal-filling “defect” in amebic abscess of the liver was recorded on scan. This investigation was helpful in detecting concealed and multiple amebic abscess of the liver and in studying the progress of the healing of this lesion in the liver.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Observations of Isotope Hepatoscanning in Diagnosis and Treatment of Amoebic Liver InfectionAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1964
- Manifestations of metastatic tumors of the liverThe American Journal of Medicine, 1961