Urinary tract infection and other pediatric considerations

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 304-310

  Rossleigh, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child; Kidney cortex, radionuclide imaging; Radioisotope renography; Urinary tract infections, radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; ETHYLENE DICYSTEINE TC 99M; FUROSEMIDE; IODOHIPPURATE SODIUM I 123; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERCHLORIC ACID; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIURESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY CORTEX; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036893369     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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