Abstract
Cholescintigraphy has gained widespread acceptance in detection of acute cholecystitis (AC). Gallbladder (GB) visualization within 4 h effectively rules out A.C. with a high degree of specificity. We present a case of A.C. in a patient who had a normal scintigraphic appearance of the G.B. at 30 min with what appeared to be entero-gastric reflux, and which retrospectively proved to be A. C with a cholecystocolic fistula.
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Ripley, S.D., Fink-Bennett, D. Enterobiliary fistulae: A potential cause of a false-negative hepatobiliary study in the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. Eur J Nucl Med 10, 167–168 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252729
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252729