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Abstract

A normal meal can be labelled with 99mtechnetium, e.g. as 99mTc-diethylene-triamine-pentacetic acid (DTPA). The supine patient is scanned half-hourly after this has been consumed, till activity has left the stomach. Emptying is exponential, so the half-life of meals in the stomach is a useful measurement. This is normally 60–90 min, compared with 40–60 min in uncomplicated duodenal ulcers and 75–100+ min in duodenal ulcers with gastric outflow obstruction.

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  1. Gastroenterology General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK

    M. C. Bateson (Consultant Physician and Specialist)

  2. University of Edinburgh, UK

    I. A. Bouchier (Professor of Medicine)

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Bateson, M.C., Bouchier, I.A. (1988). Stomach. In: Clinical Investigations in Gastroenterology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2633-2_5

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