Small urine leak after renal transplantation: Detection by delayed 99mTc-DTPA renography - A case report

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-33

  Yu, Jian Q ^a   Zhuang, Hongming ^a   Xiu, Yan ^a   El Haddad, Ghassan ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

99mTc DTPA renography; Renal transplantation; Urine leak

Indexed keywords

PENTETIC ACID; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCELE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RENOGRAPHY; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE VOLUME; URINOMA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TIME FACTORS; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 20644436491     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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