The clinical and imaging presentation of acute "non complicated" pyelonephritis: A new profile for an ancient disease

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Piccoli, Giorgina ^a   Consiglio, Valentina ^a   Deagostini, Maria ^a   Serra, Melania ^a   Biolcati, Marilisa ^a   Ragni, Francesca ^a   Biglino, Alberto ^b   De Pascale, Agostino ^a   Frascisco, Mauro ^a   Veltri, Andrea ^a   Porpiglia, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; computed tomography; epidemiology; kidney scars; nuclear magnetic resonance; upper urinary tract infections

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY SCAR; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455225470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-12-68     Document Type: Article

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