Renal pyramid echogenicity in ureteropelvic junction obstruction: Correlation between altered echogenicity and differential renal function

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1068-1073

  Chavhan, Govind ^a   Daneman, Alan ^a   Moineddin, Rahim ^b   Lim, Ruth ^a   Langlois, Valerie ^a   Traubici, Jeffrey ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Differential renal function; Echogenicity; Obstruction; Pyramidal echogenicity; Renal pyramid; Ultrasound; UPJ obstruction; US

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; MERTIATIDE TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 51649091347     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-008-0943-5     Document Type: Article

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