Diagnostic efficacy of parametric clearance images in detection of renal scars in children with recurrent urinary tract infections

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 313-318

  Kuśmierek, Jacek ^a   Pietrzak Stelmasiak, Ewa ^a   Bieńkiewicz, Małgorzata ^a   Woźnicki, Wojciech ^a   Surma, Marian ^a   Frieske, Izabela ^a   Płachcińska, Anna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic recurrent urinary tract infections; Dynamic renal scintigraphy; Parametric renal clearance images; Renal scarring

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; N-(MERCAPTOACETYL)GLYCINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M-ETHYLENEDICYSTEINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; GLYCINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84939963671     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0944-4     Document Type: Article

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