Long-term clinical follow up of children with primary vesicoureteric reflux

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-154

  Abeysekara, C K ^a   Yasaratna, B M C D ^a   Abeyagunawardena, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Long term outcome; Primary vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER;

AGE; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH INFECTION; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY SCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEINURIA; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; URETER REIMPLANTATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SRI LANKA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 33644554815     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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