Simon's ureta was cut during his bowel cancer surgery he has a back drain to his kidney. He has to go to Leeds nuclear scan on his kidney
Has anyone heard of this??
Hi Rosie13
Yes-I’ve had a petscan which is a type of nuclear scan. It means there is a small amount of a radioactive tracer injected into the body via a cannula. This liquid will highlight various tissues and organs like other scans do, and let the doctors see what things are like inside.
It’s nothing to worry about-it took a bit longer than a ct scan as you need to wait while the tracer liquid goes round your body.
Sarah xx
When you hear the word nuclear and it’s not explained it can be a worry, but it’s like a ct scan, and he’s probably had them before. It’s not enclosed like an mri scan-it’s just lying on a table with the machine going over the body like the ct scan does. I found the scan itself no problem-it was quite short-just had the wait for the tracer to go round my body first, which took about an hour. I don’t know if that will be exactly the same for Simon, but I had mine done to check everything to plan my surgery accurately.
Sarah xx
