Identification of the site of severe colon bleeding by Technetium-labeled red-cell scan
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 35 (3) , 219-222
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02051010
Abstract
TLRCS was a reliable indicator of the site of severe colon bleeding. A retrospective study was made of patients investigated in this way for acute, severe colon bleeding at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, from 1984 to 1988 (five years). TLRCS identified the site of bleeding in less than half of the cases but correctly identified the site in all nine patients in whom bleeding was so severe as to require emergency surgery, avoiding total colectomy in eight cases. Read at the XIIIth Biennial Congress of the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Graz, Austria, June 24 to 28, 1990. © The ASCRS 1992...Keywords
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