Management in children of mild postnatal renal dilatation but without vesicoureteral reflux

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-483

  Anderson, Nigel G ^a   Fischer, Jesse ^b   Leighton, Diane ^b   Hector Taylor, James ^b   McEwing, Rachael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mildpostnatal renal dilatation; Neonatal hydronephrosis; Neonatal screening; Prenatal; Ultrasonography; Ureteral obstruction; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER DISTENSION; CALYCEAL DILATATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDYMOORCHITIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; MILD POSTNATAL RENAL DILATATION; NEPHRECTOMY; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; ORCHITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PHIMOSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPLASTY; RADIOLOGY; RENOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT RADIOGRAPHY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; AGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY DISEASE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

AGING; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 77950357285     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-009-1348-x     Document Type: Article

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