Primary vesicoureteral reflux: Progress of disease, somatic growth and renal parameters

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1025-1030

  Menon, Prema ^a   Rao, K L N ^a   Bhattacharya, Arpita ^a   Mahajan, J K ^a   Samujh, R ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Primary vesicoureteral reflux; Renal scarring; Somatic growth parameters; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NEWBORN; SCAR FORMATION; URETER REIMPLANTATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; WEIGHT GAIN;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 7044237315     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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