The Use of Technetium-99m Sulfur Colloid in the Detection of Patent Processus Vaginalis in Patients on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Vol. 10 (8) , 553-555
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003072-198508000-00005
Abstract
Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is commonly used in patients with renal failure as an alternative to hemodialysis. A not infrequent complication is scrotal swelling due to bowel or fluid passing through a patent processus vaginalis secondary to increased abdominal pressure. A radionuclide study using Tc-99m sulfur colloid is a safe and simple method to determine if this complication is present or may be used as a pre-CAPD screening procedure.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Technetium-99m-Labelled Macroaggregated Albumin in Demonstration of Trans-Diaphragmatic Leakage of Dialysate in Peritoneal DialysisAmerican Journal of Nephrology, 1982
- Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal DialysisAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1978