Results of a five-year study of 99mTc-DMSA renal scintigraphy in children and adolescents following acute pyelonephritis

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-50

  Chroustová, Daniela ^a   Palyzová, Daniela ^a   Urbanová, Irene ^b   Kolská, Monika ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

99mTc DMSA scan; Acute pyelonephritis; Childhood; Renal scintigraphy; Vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; ACUTE DISEASE; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYELONEPHRITIS; SCINTISCANNING; TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 33745913900     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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