The role of renal scintigraphy in the evaluation of the first acute febrile urinary tract infection in childhood;Utilidad de la gammagrafia renal en la valoracion de la primera infeccion urinaria febril en la edad pediatrica

Anales Espanoles de Pediatria

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 378-382

  Dura Trave T ^a,b   Gonzalez Montera, R ^a,b   Juste Ruiz, M ^a,b   De Gonzalez Dios, J ^a,b   Carratala Marco, F ^a,b   Moya Benavent, M ^a,b   Calpena, O Caballero ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JUAN   (Spain)

^b Orense 75S Dcha ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Renal; Renal scintigraphy; Ultrasonography; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteral reflux; Voiding cystourethrography

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; MICTURITION REFLEX; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEVER; INFANT; KIDNEY; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCINTISCANNING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031242135     PISSN: 03024342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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