Cyclic contrast-enhanced harmonic voiding urosonography for the evaluation of reflux. Can we keep the cost of the examination low?

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2521-2526

  Papadopoulou, Frederica ^a   Tsampoulas, Constantine ^a   Siomou, Ekaterini ^a   Tzovara, Joannie ^a   Siamopoulou, Antigoni ^a   Efremidis, Stavros C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Ultra sound; Ureter; Vesicoureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

SH U 508A; SHU 508; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; POLYSACCHARIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; URINATION; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 33750491978     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0253-y     Document Type: Article

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