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Volume 348:251-252 January 16, 2003 Number 3
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Imaging Studies for Childhood Urinary Infections
F. Bruder Stapleton, M.D.

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The question of whether to obtain imaging studies after a urinary tract infection in a child is a challenging one. The potential long-term morbidity associated with repeated bouts of pyelonephritis or high-grade vesicoureteral reflux has led to the routine radiographic evaluation of children with urinary tract infections. For a number of years, renal ultrasonography and voiding cystourethrography have been standard diagnostic tests for young children with urinary tract infections and currently are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.1 This approach seems particularly cogent for young children, because an acute urinary tract infection might be the first indication of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.


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