SCINTIGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF SOLID‐PHASE GASTRIC EMPTYING IN THE DOG

Abstract

A technique for scintigraphically quantitating solid‐phase gastric emptying in the dog was developed in a Beagle model. The test meal was determined to empty in a linear fashion, indicating a solid‐phase label. The evaluation was performed on a group of dogs presented for gastrointestinal signs that were judged to have normal liquid barium sulfate fluoroscopic and radiographic studies. The results of this study indicate that this technique is valuable for identifying those patients with surgically correctable pyloric obstruction that exhibit normal gastric emptying of liquid barium.