Diuretic renogram clearance half‐times in the diagnosis of obstructive uropathy: effect of age and previous surgery

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 797-807

  Karam, M ^a   Feustel, P J ^a   Goldfarb, C R ^a   Kogan, B A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diuretic renogram; Half time; Infants.; Obstruction; Pyeloplasty; Wash out

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; DRUG EFFECT; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIURESIS; DIURETICS; FUROSEMIDE; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 2142857788     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000080242.50447.68     Document Type: Article

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