radioisotope scanning is very important in evaluation, diagnosis and proper treatment of urinary tract infection (uti) and vesicoureteral reflux (vur) because of high sensitivity of this technique and less radiation dose delivered to the patients. this is a descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the frequency vur in a group of children aged 28 days to 14 years referred to our department...

THE left-to-right shunts found in small atrial or ventricular septal defects or in patent ductus arteriosus are easily demonstrated during cardiac catheterization by both rightand left-sided approaches.' Efforts to evaluate shunting due to these defects without cardiac catheterization have depended on measurements of the cardiac output curves obtained by various external counting technics.Y Bec...

SHIRAI, M., NAKAMURA, M. and MATSUDA, S. Differential Diagnosis between Functional and Organic Impotence by Radioisotope Penogram Following Visual Sexual Stimulation. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1973, 111 (2), 187-195 The radioisotope penogram, which measures changes of blood flow through the penis, was developed and applied as a measure of objective differentiation between functional and organic impo...