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Diagnostic Procedures: Excluding MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Video Urodynamics

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Pediatric Urogenital Radiology

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Abstract

In the introduction of his course on Pediatric Uroradiology at Harvard Medical School, Prof. Robert L. Lebowitz cited the following sentence by LL. Weed: “Just as important as doing the thing right is doing the right thing”. This is an excellent introduction to this chapter.

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Ntoulia, A., Dacher, JN., Riccabona, M. (2018). Diagnostic Procedures: Excluding MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Video Urodynamics. In: Riccabona, M. (eds) Pediatric Urogenital Radiology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39202-8_1

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