Abstract
Hepato-biliary scanning with 99mTc-P.G. demonstrated in a jaundiced patient at 31 weeks pregnancy the filling of the fetal bladder 6 h after injection.
This finding was confirmed by ultrasound.
Fetal urinary bladder activity was seen until 33 h after injection. Fetal hepatic radio-activity could not be displayed although the localisation of the fetal liver was marked by ultrasound.
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Winter, W., Verdegaal, W., Esseveld, M. et al. Radionuclide fetal imaging. Eur J Nucl Med 4, 309–311 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304890
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