Adil Allah Rakha, Waqar Amin
Department of Nuclear Medicine, MINAR, Nishtar, Multan.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2005 Dec;15(12):821-2.
A LeVeen peritoneo-venous shunt is placed for intractable ascites. Determination of obstruction site in the shunt tube is a difficult problem. We describe a simple nuclear medicine method using 111MBq (3mCi) of Technetium-99m labeled macro-aggregated albumin injected intraperitoneally.