Diagnosis and management of vesicoureteral reflux in children

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 481-489

  Cooper, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEFLUX; DEXTRANOMER; HYALURONIC ACID; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; PLACEBO; SUCCIMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY SCAR; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETER REIMPLANTATION; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 70349117669     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.150     Document Type: Review

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