MAG3 spect: A rapid procedure to evaluate the renal parenchyma

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 478-483

  Sfakianakis, George N ^a   Georgiou, Mike F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Ectopic kidney1 growth arrested kidney; Renal parenchymal scintigraphy; SPECT; Split renal function; Technetium 99m MAG3

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; GLUCEPTATE TC 99M; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFERENCE VALUES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030884192     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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