title: Is Imaging Time Between two Tc 99m DMSA Scans Sufficient for Reporting as Renal Parenchymal Scarring? Healed Parenchymal Renal Defect After 6 Years.
abstract: We aimed to report a healed renal parenchymal defect after 6 years in a 9-year-old girl who was being followed for recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI). The first UTI was at the age of two. She was being followed with ultrasonography, urine analysis and urine culture since the first UTI. Technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scintigraphy was repeated four times up to the present day. She had a renal parenchymal defect reported as parenchymal scarring, which healed 6 years after the first DMSA scintigraphy.
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Dokuz Eylül university, School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sürücü
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Meral
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torun Bayram
authors.forename: Salih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kavukçu
authors.forename: Hatice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Durak
keywords: Kidney cortex necrosis; technetium Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid; urinary tract infections