Imaging in Urinary Tract Infections: Current Strategies and New Trends

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-66

  Biassoni, Lorenzo ^a   Chippington, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; SUCCIMER;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIURIA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYSTITIS; CYSTOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY SCAR; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URODYNAMICS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 37149034076     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2007.09.005     Document Type: Review

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