Febrile urinary tract infections: Clinical and laboratory diagnosis, imaging, and prognosis

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-128

  Edefonti, Alberto ^a   Tel, Francesca ^a   Testa, Sara ^a   De Palma, Diego ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESTERASE; HOST FACTOR; NITRITE; PROCALCITONIN; SUCCIMER; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEBRILE URINARY TRACT INFECTION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; URINE CULTURE;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEVER; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84893508109     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2013.10.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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