Unusual biliary scan appearance in a child with a transplanted liver with hepatic arterial thrombosis: a case report

U Porn; R Howman-Giles; A Shun; S Dorney; R Uren

doi:10.1097/00003072-200002000-00005

Unusual biliary scan appearance in a child with a transplanted liver with hepatic arterial thrombosis: a case report

Clin Nucl Med. 2000 Feb;25(2):107-9. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200002000-00005.

Authors

U Porn¹, R Howman-Giles, A Shun, S Dorney, R Uren

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, The New Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

PMID: 10656644
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200002000-00005

Abstract

A 5-year-old girl with biliary atresia and a subsequent Kasai procedure is described. She had clinical symptoms suggestive of rejection after a recent orthotopic liver transplant A hepatobiliary scan showed partial hepatic infarction and a biloma in the infarcted area.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bile
Biliary Atresia / surgery
Biliary Tract / diagnostic imaging*
Child, Preschool
Female
Hepatic Artery*
Humans
Liver Transplantation / diagnostic imaging*
Radionuclide Imaging
Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging*
Thrombosis / etiology