Case study: PET/CT findings of spilled intraperitoneal gallstones
Published
22 August 2012
| Article by Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2012
| Tags:
fdg-pet/ct,
fever-of-unknown-origin,
cholecystectomy
Case study: PET/CT findings of spilled intraperitoneal gallstones
An otherwise healthy 63-year-old man who had undergone emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis 6 weeks earlier developed daily fever for more than 3 weeks, malaise, weight loss, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Initial imaging procedures (abdominal ultrasound...
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