Should renal ultrasonography be done routinely in children with first urinary tract infection?

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-25

  Alon, Uri S ^a,b   Ganapathy, Soumya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0032894963     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992289903800103     Document Type: Article

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