Clinical Evaluation of Patients with Atrophied Left Lobe on the Liver Scan

간 스캔에서 나타난 간 좌엽위축의 임상적 의의

  • Chung, Jin-Hong (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Chung, Byung-Chun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Kwang-Won (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Sohn, Sang-Kyun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Tae (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Kyu-Bo (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Whang, Kee-Suk (Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University)
  • 정진홍 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 정병천 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 김광원 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 손상균 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 이재태 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 이규보 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 황기석 (경북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실)
  • Published : 1990.04.25

Abstract

We evaluated 85 cases with atrophy of left lobe among 11,133 cases performed liver scan using $^{99m}Tc-phytate$ from January 1984 to January 1990 at Kyungpook National University Hospital in association with underlying causes and related conditions. Seventeen cases seemed to be due to biliary tract diseases, eg, cholelithiasis, cholangiocarcinoma, clonorchiasis and postcholecystectomy state. Fifteen cases were patients with primary and metastatic hepatic malignancies. One case had a history of hepatic irradiation. Thirty cases comprised acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and fatty liver. However no causative abnormalities could be detected in 22 cases despite of meticulous diagnostic work-up.

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