Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Evaluation of 58 cases of 99mTc-DTPA renal transplantation scans [Persian]

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Nuclear medicine methods have important role in the evaluation of transplanted kidney. In this study 58 99mTc-DTPA scans were performed in 38 patients. This method has 90% sensitivity and 96% specificity. In the cases of normal transplanted kidneys, function correlation between doppler sonography and scanning was more than dysfunctioning kidneys.
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