99Tcm-dmsa renal scintigraphy for acute pyelonephritis in adults planar and/or spet imaging?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 889-

  Everaert, H ^a   Flamen, P ^a   Franken, P R ^a   Bossuyt, A ^a   Piepsz, A ^a   Peeters, P ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCCIMER; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029658169     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199610000-00010     Document Type: Article

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