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Radionuclide Gastrointestinal Transit Tests

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Pediatric Neurogastroenterology

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Scintigraphic techniques in the investigation of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) have been in clinical use for decades but until recently have been little utilized in clinical practice. Scintigraphy is considered the gold standard for measuring gastric motility, but its clinical application has been limited in view of the lack of standardization of the technique. The large variety of the radiolabeled meals in use has made it difficult to define a normal range that is applicable to all centers, thus generating uncertainties in the value of the technique. The difficulty in recruiting pediatric normal volunteers to establish a normal range of the radionuclide gastric emptying study has added to the problem. Small bowel and colonic transit scintigraphic studies in children are performed only in selected specialized centers.

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

    Lorenzo Biassoni M.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.E.B.N.M. & Marina Easty M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R.

  2. Division of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Osvaldo Borrelli M.D., Ph.D.

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    Christophe Faure

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  3. Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology, and Nutrition, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Biassoni, L., Easty, M., Borrelli, O. (2017). Radionuclide Gastrointestinal Transit Tests. In: Faure, C., Thapar, N., Di Lorenzo, C. (eds) Pediatric Neurogastroenterology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43268-7_14

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