Scintigraphy and Doppler ultrasonography for the evaluation of obstructive urinary calculi

Forty-seven patients with unilateral obstructive calculi (12 males and 35 females) were submitted to 99mTc-diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) or 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scans for assessment of renal function. The scans revealed unilateral functional deficit in 68 and 66% of the...

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Main Authors: L. Gandolpho, M. Sevillano, A. Barbieri, S. Ajzen, N. Schor, V. Ortiz, I.P. Heilberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2001-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2001000600007