title: Renal scarring secondary to vesicoureteric reflux. Critical assessment and new grading.
abstract: One hundred and fifty children with proven urinary tract infection who were assessed by renal ultrasound (U/S), intravenous urography (IVU) and dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc DMSA) scan, were studied to identify the sensitivity of each examination and the pick-up rate of renal scarring secondary to vesicoureteric reflux. Sixty-three of these children who had the examinations carried out within a 6-month period were assessed in detail. A DMSA scan is the most accurate method of detecting early renal scars in the young age group (0-2 and 2-5 years), followed by ultrasound. The examinations are equally sensitive over the age of 5. A new grading system of the severity of renal scarring is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monsour
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Azmy
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: MacKenzie
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*