Detection and localization of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis with radionuclide venography

Radionuclide venography has been performed in 180 patients for evaluation of the lower extremity deep venous system. 21 of these patients suffered from a pelvic vein thrombosis, in 5 out of these patients a systemic-portal shunting of blood has been discovered. Also the collateral circulation in the patients with a lower extremity deep venous thrombosis has been clearly shown. Radionuclide venography is a relatively simple method of thrombus detection in the pelvic veins and the lower extremity deep venous system.