ArticleTurkish journal of urology2018
Comparison of contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography with voiding cystourethrography in pediatric vesicoureteral reflux.
Article in Turkish journal of urology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04738539 (Efficacy of Contrast Enhanced Voiding Urosonography for Urodynamic Studies), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Efficacy of Contrast Enhanced Voiding Urosonography for Urodynamic Studies
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Determining the optimal contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography technique for vesicoureteral reflux in children and adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Contrast-Enhanced Voiding Urosonography for Diagnosis of Ectopic Ureters in Five Female Dogs.Veterinary radiology & ultrasound : the official journal of the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the International Veterinary Radiology Association · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced voiding ultrasonography and direct radionuclide cystography with physiologic bladder filling volumes in pediatric vesicoureteral reflux-a prospective study.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- A Comparison of Contrast-Enhanced Voiding Urosonography (CE-VUS) and Contrast Retrograde Cystourethrography (RCUG) for the Detection of Vesicoureteral Reflux in Young Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Contrast media viscosity and its potential effect on the diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux in children.European radiology · 2025Article
- Review
- Diffusion-weighted MRI in the identification of renal parenchymal involvement in children with a first episode of febrile urinary tract infection.Frontiers in radiology · 2024Article
- Application of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the surgical treatment of vesicoureteral reflux in children.Pediatric surgery international · 2023Review
- A narrative review on the applications of intracavitary contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in pediatric lower genitourinary anomalies.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- [Ultrasonography of the kidneys, retroperitoneal space and urinary bladder : Importance for urologists in hospitals and medical practice].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2022Review
- Contemporary Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Children.Current treatment options in pediatrics · 2022Review
- The Spectrum of Parenchymal Changes in Kidneys Affected by Intrarenal Reflux, Diagnosed by Contrast-Enhanced Voiding Urosonography and DMSA Scan.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound: a comprehensive review of safety in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
- Evaluation of the Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Voiding Urosonography with Regard to the Further Therapy Regime and Patient Outcome-A Single-Center Experience in an Interdisciplinary Uroradiological Setting.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Intrarenal Reflux in the Light of Contrast-Enhanced Voiding Urosonography.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Updated Italian recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the first febrile urinary tract infection in young children.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2020Review
- Advanced Ultrasound Techniques for Pediatric Imaging.Pediatrics · 2019Review
- Comparison of voiding vesicoureteral urosonography with fluoroscopic voiding cystourethrography in children with vesicoureteral reflux.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
objectiveVoiding cystourethrography (VCUG) has been considered as the gold standard technique for the diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). But, it requires fluoroscopic guidance which expose children to radiation. Voiding urosonography (VUS) is technically analogous to VCUG and has the major advantage of zero radiation exposure. This study aims to determine the efficacy of contrast enhanced-VUS (ce-VUS) with respect to VCUG in diagnosing VUR. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis study involves 30 children over a period of 3 years. All patients underwent a VCUG followed by the ce-VUS on the same day. All VUS studies were done by the same sonologist in the sonography department. The images were recorded and reviewed by the same sonologist before reporting.
resultsThe median age of the patients was 51.53 months. There were 21 males and 9 females. On VCUG, 16 patients had no reflux, and 14 patients had reflux. On ce-VUS, 14 patients had no VUR, and 16 patients had VUR. Of the total 58 kidney-ureter units (KUUs), VUR was detected in 17 KUUs on VCUG and in 21 KUUs on ce-VUS. Thus, ce-VUS detected 4 refluxing units that were not seen on VCUG. In right KUUs, ce-VUS detected VUR in 3 units where no reflux was found in VCUG. In the 28 left KUUs, 25 units on ce-VUS showed concordance with the grade of VUR as detected by VCUG; 3 were discordant. Two units on ce-VUS showed a VUR one grade higher than the corresponding grade on VCUG and in one unit it was one grade lower. Thus, in total, ce-VUS picked up 4 cases which were missed by VCUG.
conclusionce-VUS is a good imaging modality when compared to voiding cystourethrography to assess pediatric vesicoureteral reflux, in view of its superior diagnostic performance, feasibility and radiation safety for children.
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