Briones-Velázquez EA, Páez-Moreno S

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 240-243
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ABSTRACT

We present the images of a Meckel's diverticulum by conventional scintigraphy and by single photon emission tomography (SPECT), using the metastable technetium-99 radioisotope (^99mTc), in an 8-year-old patient, in whom the diagnosis was confirmed by surgery and histopathology

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