Are younger children at highest risk of renal sequelae after pyelonephritis?

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9044, 1997, Pages 17-19

  Benador, Daivy ^a   Benador, Nadine ^a   Slosman, Daniel ^a   Mermillod, Bernadette ^a   Girardin, Eric ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK; SCINTIGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0031018152     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)06126-0     Document Type: Article

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