(Paediatric) magnetic resonance urography: Just fancy images or a new important diagnostic tool?

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-55

  Riccabona, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Children paediatric; Hydronephrosis; Kidney; Magnetic resonance urography; Urinary tract malformation

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE UROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; UROGRAPHY;

CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 33845468693     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3280119889     Document Type: Review

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