Childhood acute pyelonephritis: Comparison of power Doppler sonography and Tc-DMSA scintigraphy

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 685-690

  Stogianni, Aggeliki ^a   Nikolopoulos, Panagiotis ^b   Oikonomou, Ippoliti ^a   Gatzola, Magdalini ^a   Balaris, Vassilios ^a   Farmakiotis, Dimitrios ^c   Dimitriadis, Athanasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b 424 General Army Hospital   (Greece)

^c Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Children; DMS Ascintigraphy; Kidney; Power Doppler; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34250661833     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-007-0510-5     Document Type: Article

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