Renal measurements, including length, parenchymal thickness, and medullary pyramid thickness, in healthy children: What are the normative ultrasound values?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 509-515

  Kadioglu, Alev ^a  

^a ALKA Radiologic Diagnosis Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Kidney; Medullary width; Parenchymal thickness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SIZE; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 76149112252     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2986     Document Type: Article

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