Pediatric applications of renal nuclear medicine

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-35

  Piepsz, Amy ^a   Ham, Hamphrey R ^b  

^a SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; EDETATE CHROMIUM CR 51; FUROSEMIDE; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE; SUCCIMER; TRACER;

ACCURACY; ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG MONITORING; ECTOPIC KIDNEY; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DUPLICATION; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MEGAURETER; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NORMAL VALUE; PEDIATRICS; PLASMA CLEARANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RENOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; ULTRAFILTRATION; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CATHETER; VALIDATION PROCESS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CHILD; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY;

EID: 28844488837     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2005.08.002     Document Type: Review

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