sodium-pertechnetate-tc-99m and Hydronephrosis

Over the past 10 years new imaging and interventional techniques have drastically changed the ease and scope of urologic diagnosis and treatment. It is both rewarding and exciting to approach each clinical problem with a broad armamentarium of available studies, always seeking the most efficient and direct route to diagnosis. Similarly, radiologic interventional techniques are potentially applicable to a multitude of problems and should be innovatively considered in the urologic patient including patients in the pediatric age group.

Topics: Abscess; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Hydronephrosis; Ileum; Infant; Iodohippuric Acid; Kidney; Kidney Diseases; Male; Pentetic Acid; Radionuclide Imaging; Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; Succimer; Technetium; Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid; Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Ultrasonography; Ureteral Obstruction; Urethra; Urinary Bladder; Urinary Calculi; Urinary Diversion; Urologic Diseases; Vesico-Ureteral Reflux

Topics: Aged; Diagnostic Errors; Gastric Fundus; Humans; Hydronephrosis; Kidney; Male; Radionuclide Imaging; Radiopharmaceuticals; Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m