Aspiration Incidentally Detected by a Meckel Scintigraphy. (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bai, Xia; Fostitsch, Johannes C.; Zhuang, Hongming
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 42:Number 12(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: aspiration -- Meckel scintigraphy; Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001870
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Meckel scintigraphy with 99m Tc-pertechnetate was performed in a 5-year-old boy to determine whether a Meckel diverticulum containing ectopic gastric mucosa caused bleeding. The images did not reveal focal activity characteristic of a Meckel diverticulum. Unexpectedly, activity in the tracheobronchial tree was visualized, consistent with aspiration of the radioactive saliva.