Abstract
Authors already reported the radioisotope sceanning of the liver, the spleen, the pancreas and the kidney. These scintigrams are so much helpful for the diagnosis of the abdominal masses.
The differential diagnosis of retroperitoneal tumor from liver swelling, swelling of
the left lobe of liver from splenomegaly and swelling of kidney from splenomegaly are not so easy with only abdominal or chest X-ray pictures, but scintigrams play very important role for the diagnosis. Frequently the superimposition of the scintigram and X-ray picture is greatly useful for the purpose of the diagnostic interpretation.
And these scintigrams indicate the shape and the size of abdominal masses and the extent of invasion of the masses into adjacent organs. Functional and morpholgical changes of adjacent organs are also shown on the scintigrams.
