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Update on Pediatric Kidney and Urinary Tract Imaging

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper will review the current roles of imaging for assessing the pediatric kidneys and urinary tract, while emphasizing recent trends and advances in imaging techniques.

Recent findings

Imaging aids in the diagnosis, assessment, and follow-up of the spectrum of congenital and developmental, infectious and inflammatory, traumatic, neoplastic, vascular, and acquired renal and urinary tract conditions. While ultrasound is the workhorse imaging modality for evaluating the kidneys and urinary tract in the pediatric population, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, nuclear scintigraphy, and abdominal radiography also play particular roles. Numerous recent advances have improved the diagnostic capabilities of these modalities.

Summary

Imaging plays an important role in the management of children and young adults with suspected and known renal and urologic abnormalities.

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Dillman, J.R., Trout, A.T. Update on Pediatric Kidney and Urinary Tract Imaging. Curr Treat Options Peds 4, 1–13 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40746-018-0108-1

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