Assessment of radioisotopic micturating cystography for the diagnosis of vesicoureteric reflux in renal transplant recipients with acute pyelonephritis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Canivet, E ^a   Wampach, H ^b   Brandt, B ^a   Toupance, O ^a   Lavaud, S ^a   Lardennois, B ^a   Liehn, J C ^b   Chanard, J ^a  

^a REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cystography; Pyelonephritis; Radioisotopic cystography; Renal transplantation; Vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGENITAL SCINTISCANNING; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHILD; EVALUATION STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; URINARY BLADDER; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0031023226     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.1.67     Document Type: Article

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