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A 10-year-old boy presented with periumbilical postprandial pain and some melena. Physical examination was normal. All investigations were negative except a pertechnetate 99mTc abdominal scan which showed a very large and horn-shaped focus of high activity in the right flank. An ileal duplication was resected. It was lined by antral gastric mucosa with a large ulcer. The patient was treated successfully. The abdominal pertechnetate scan is discussed.
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Lecouffe, P., Spyckerelle, C., Venel, H. et al. Use of pertechnetate 99mTc for abdominal scanning in localising an ileal duplication cyst: case report and review of the literature. Eur J Nucl Med 19, 65–67 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00178310
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