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The difficulty of clinical and radiographical diagnosis of hepatoma is discussed. A case of hepatoma is reported. Both the primary tumor and distant metastases showed strong avidity for 99mTc-HIDA, which normally is concentrated by parenchymal cells of the liver. The potential of using 99mTc-HIDA for the noninvasive investigation of patients suspected of having hepatoma is discussed. The association between tumor avidity for 99mTc-HIDA and the bile-forming ability of tumor cells is of interest.
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Lee, V.W., Shapiro, J.H. Specific diagnosis of hepatoma using 99mTc-HIDA and other radionuclides. Eur J Nucl Med 8, 191–195 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253764
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