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Clinical imaging with indium-111 leukocytes: uptake in bowel infarction.
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1981
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ImmunologyGastroenterologyPathologySmall-bowel InfarctionInflammationIndium-111 LeukocytesHematologyVascular ImagingUlcerative ColitisNuclear MedicineRadiologyHealth SciencesAbdominal ImagingHistopathologyRadiologic ImagingNuclear Medicine PhysicianClinical GastroenterologyGastrointestinal PathologyParacolic AbscessMedicine
Leukocytes labeled with indium-111 accumulated in are area of small-bowel infarction, mimicking a paracolic abscess. Evidence of subacute bowel obstruction should alert the nuclear medicine physician to the former possibility.