[Morphological and functional study of the liver using scintigraphy with 99m-Tc-HIDA before and after major resection...

Personal experience in the monitoring of liver function and morphology after resection using hepatobiliary HIDA 99mTc scintigraphy is reported. This investigation provides useful functional and morphological data. In three patients subjected to right hepatectomy for echinococcosis the examination performed preoperatively and 25 and 90 days after surgery revealed functional normalisation of the residual liver and biliary excretion. On the basis of this experience and data from the literature the value of the technique is confirmed and it is suggested that it might be usefully adopted in the study of other liver conditions such as neoplasms, traumas as well as in the monitoring of transplanted livers.