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Digestive and Hepatobiliary System

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Several scintigraphic imaging procedures are being used to diagnose and follow-up gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary conditions. These functional studies provide information that are complementary to those of the morphologic studies and may not be demonstrated by them. The following is a brief discussion of the most common procedures.

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    Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar MD., FCAP

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Elgazzar, A.H. (2011). Digestive and Hepatobiliary System. In: A Concise Guide to Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19426-9_3

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