Open AccessMorphine Cholescintigraphy in the Evaluation of Hospitalized Patients with Suspected Acute Cholecystitis
Author(s) -
Louis Flancbaum,
Patricia S. Choban,
R. K. Sinha,
Olga Jonasson
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-199407000-00005
Subject(s) - medicine , cholescintigraphy , acute cholecystitis , morphine , general surgery , anesthesia , cholecystectomy , gallbladder
The authors determined if the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis can be accurately made or reliably eliminated by the use of morphine-augmented radionuclide cholescintigraphy (morphine cholescintigraphy [MC]) in hospitalized patients in whom the diagnosis is in doubt. SUMMARY/BACKGROUND DATA: Diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, calculous or acalculous, may be difficult in patients hospitalized for abdominal pain or other illnesses. Clinical signs often are obscure, and routine imaging studies are nonspecific or associated with a high incidence of false-positive tests. The authors report the use of MC in the evaluation of 163 hospitalized patients for acute cholecystitis over an 8-year period.