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Radionuclide Gastrointestinal Transit Tests

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Pediatric Neurogastroenterology

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Radionuclide studies of the gastrointestinal tract provide a simple and safe functional assessment of gastric, intestinal, and colonic transit. The gastric emptying scintigraphy with both liquid and a solid test meal has been recently standardized and the normal range clearly defined in children. Further work is required for remaining radionuclide transit studies. In this chapter, we describe the indications, technique, methodology, analysis, and clinical utility of the different scintigraphic test used for assessing the motility of the stomach, small bowel, colon, and whole gut.

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Biassoni, L., Borrelli, O. (2022). Radionuclide Gastrointestinal Transit Tests. In: Faure, C., Thapar, N., Di Lorenzo, C. (eds) Pediatric Neurogastroenterology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15229-0_16

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