TY - JOUR
T1 - Radionuclide imaging in the nonsurgical treatment of liver and spleen trauma
AU - Lutzker, Letty G.
AU - Chun, Kwang Ja
PY - 1981/5
Y1 - 1981/5
N2 - Twenty-nine patients had splenic or hepatic defects on99mTc sulfur colloid scintigraphy performed after abdominal trauma. All were treated conservatively. One additional patient had a scan after a laceration was oversewn. Followup scans in 24 patients 1 to 13 months later showed resolution that was complete in nine, partial in 12, and unchanged in three. No defects enlarged. All but two patients were completely asymptomatic; two children with occasional unexplained upper abdominal pain had progressively resolving splenic defects. We conclude that surgery may not always be necessary for liver-spleen injury, that radionuclide imaging is useful in evaluation of healing as well as in initial diagnosis, and that the risk of 'delayed’ rupture is much smaller than heretofore feared.
AB - Twenty-nine patients had splenic or hepatic defects on99mTc sulfur colloid scintigraphy performed after abdominal trauma. All were treated conservatively. One additional patient had a scan after a laceration was oversewn. Followup scans in 24 patients 1 to 13 months later showed resolution that was complete in nine, partial in 12, and unchanged in three. No defects enlarged. All but two patients were completely asymptomatic; two children with occasional unexplained upper abdominal pain had progressively resolving splenic defects. We conclude that surgery may not always be necessary for liver-spleen injury, that radionuclide imaging is useful in evaluation of healing as well as in initial diagnosis, and that the risk of 'delayed’ rupture is much smaller than heretofore feared.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005373-198105000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00005373-198105000-00008
M3 - Article
C2 - 7230284
AN - SCOPUS:0019475644
SN - 0022-5282
VL - 21
SP - 382
EP - 386
JO - Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
JF - Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
IS - 5
ER -