Nuclear Imaging in the Genitourinary Tract: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-43

  He, Wei ^a   Fischman, Alan J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; IODINE 123; IODOHIPPURATE SODIUM I 131; LISINOPRIL; PENTETIC ACID; TECHNETIUM 99M;

CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY SCAR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGRAPHY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 40049101263     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2008.01.006     Document Type: Review

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