Conventional Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics

1. Front Matter

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2. General Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Management of the Pediatric Patient: A Teamwork

      • Milena Pizzoferro, Maria Felicia Villani, Maria Carmen Garganese, Gaetano Masi, Stefano Chiapparelli, Elisa Villanucci et al.

      Pages 3-10

   3. Radiation Risk

      • Vittorio Cannatà, Elisabetta Genovese, Mariaconcetta Longo

      Pages 11-16

3. Clinical Pediatric Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Focus on Children with Nephrological and Urological Problems

      • Nicola Capozza, Giacomo Di Zazzo

      Pages 19-22

   3. Hydronephrosis

      • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Simona Nappo, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 23-40

   4. Megaureter

      • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Giovanni Torino, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 41-56

   5. Nephrourology: Vesicoureteral Reflux

      • Milena Pizzoferro, Maria Felicia Villani, Ermelinda Mele, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 57-80

   6. Nephrourology: Nephrological Problems

      • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Giacomo Di Zazzo, Domenico Barbuti, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 81-89

   7. Nephrourology: Urinary Tract Infections

      • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Giacomo Di Zazzo, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 91-103

   8. Nephrourology: Focus On Child with Bladder Dysfunctions and Urodynamics

      • Mario De Gennaro, Maria Luisa Capitanucci, Giovanni Mosiello

      Pages 105-112

   9. Nephrourology: Bladder Dysfunctions

      • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Mario De Gennaro, Maria Luisa Capitanucci, Giovanni Mosiello, Maria Carmen Garganese

      Pages 113-122

   10. Oncology

       • Luciana Vinti, Angela Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe Maria Milano, Evelina Miele, Raffaele Cozza, Franco Locatelli

       Pages 123-126

   11. Oncology: Solid Mass in Pediatrics and Malignant Bone Involvement

       • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Luciana Vinti, Angela Mastronuzzi, Antonella Cacchione, Roberta Lombardi et al.

       Pages 127-170

   12. Oncology: Neuroblastoma

       • Maria Felicia Villani, Milena Pizzoferro, Aurora Castellano, Roberta Lombardi, Annalisa Serra, Maria Carmen Garganese et al.

       Pages 171-214

   13. Gastroenterology: Focus on Children with Gastrointestinal Problems

       • Luigi Dall’Oglio, Renato Tambucci

       Pages 215-217

   14. Gastroenterology: Gastric Emptying – Gastroesophageal Reflux

       • Tamara Caldaro, Paola De Angelis, Filippo Torroni, Francesca Rea, Giulia Angelino, Laura Del Prete et al.

       Pages 219-239

   15. Gastroenterology: Intestinal Bleeding

       • Milena Pizzoferro, Maria Felicia Villani, Tamara Caldaro, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Erminia Francesca Romeo et al.

       Pages 241-264

   16. Gastroenterology: Bronchoaspiration: Neurological Child

       • Milena Pizzoferro, Maria Felicia Villani, Francesco De Peppo, Maria Carmen Garganese

       Pages 265-273

This superbly illustrated book combines the systematic approach of a textbook with the simplicity of consultation of an atlas in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the applications and benefits of scintigraphic studies in children. All of the clinical scenarios in which conventional nuclear medicine techniques frequently play a role in children are covered, with explanation of imaging diagnosis, the relevance of clinical history, problem solving, and pitfalls. The images themselves are the key focus of the book, and in each setting the added value offered by scintigraphy is carefully identified. The book also describes management of the pediatric patient and addresses general considerations, including reception, interaction with parents, radiopharmaceutical administration, image acquisition, radiation exposure, and the relationship of nuclear medicine and radiology. Since the child is not a young adult, it is insufficient simply to adapt nuclear medicine procedures performed inadults to the age and size of the child. Conventional Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics will be a rich source of information for all who perform these procedures in the pediatric setting.

• Nuclear medicine in children
• Nuclear medicine in gastroenterology
• Nuclear medicine in oncology
• Nuclear medicine in urology
• Scintigraphy in children
• Diagnostic Radiology

• Diagnostic Imaging Dept-Nuclear Med, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospi, Rome, Italy

  Maria Carmen Garganese

• Diagnostic Imaging Dept-Nucl Med Un, Private Hospital "Pio XI", Rome, Italy

  Giovanni Francesco Livio D'Errico

Professor Giovanni Francesco Livio D’Errico works at the Nuclear Medicine Unit of "Pio XI Private Hospital" in Rome and previously taught at the Catholic University "Sacro Cuore". He is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and Radioguided Surgery. Professor D’Errico is the author of more than 170 national and international publications, as well as the author or editor of various books: for Springer he co-edited the book Radionuclide Imaging of Infection and Inflammation - A Pictorial Case-Based Atlas, published in 2013. He is co-author for the chapter “Methodological aspects of lymphosintigraphy: bicompartimental versus monocompartmental radio colloid administration" on Atlas of Lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel node mapping. A pictorial case-based approach, publishedin 2013.

Dr. Maria Carmen Garganese is Head of the Diagnostic Imaging Department - Nuclear Medicine Unit at the Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome. She is a consultant at AIFA (Italian Medicine Agency) in the Working Group on Radionuclides for the pediatrics. She is the author or co-author of 80 publications and of three book chapters, in “Clinical Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics”,  in “Manuale SIGENP di gastroenterologia ed epatologia pediatrica”, in “Radionuclides in Nephrourology.

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