RENAL FUNCTION EVALUATION WITH <sup>99m</sup>Tc-DMSA RENAL UPTAKE IN PRIMARY VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX PATIENTS
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Variables affecting adolescent renal function in patients born with vesico-ureteric reflux
OBJECTIVE To examine whether factors in a child's perinatal history influence renal function in adolescence, using a cross-sectional study, as during the past two decades researchers have tried to ascertain whether factors such as low birth weight might be related to a decline in kidney function in adolescence, although published data for children born with vesico-ureteric reflux (VUR) remain i...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Urology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0021-5287,1884-7110
DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol1928.79.1_126