Role of direct radionuclide cystography and renal study by dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) in the diagnosis and follow-up of vesicoureteral reflux;La cistografía isotópica directa y la gammagrafía renal con ácido dimercaptosuccínico (DMSA) en el diagnóstico y seguimiento del reflujo vesicoureteral

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 269-274

  Camacho Marti V ^a   Estorch Cabrera, M ^a,b   Caffaratti Sfulcini, J ^a   Fraga Rodriguez G M ^b   Orsola De Los Santos, A ^a   Rodriguez Villamil L ^a   Garat Barredo, J M ^a   Cubells Riero J ^b   Carrio Gasset I ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct radionuclide cystography; Renal DMSA scintigraphy; Vesicoureteral reflux; Voiding cystourethrography

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; ACUTE DISEASE; BLADDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEVER; KIDNEY CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; URETHRA;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0036653978     PISSN: 02126982     EISSN: 1578200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0212-6982(02)72087-9     Document Type: Article

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