PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 6 June 1967, pp. 872-875
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RENAL LOCALIZATION FOR PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY BY SCANNING WITH TECHNETIUM-99m-IRON COMPLEX

Marvin Forland M.D.1, Alexander Gottschalk M.D.2, Benjamin H. Spargo M.D.3, and Burton J. Grossman M.D.4

1 The Department of Medicine and the LaRabida Sanitarium, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
2 The Department of Radiologlogy and the LaRabida Sanitarium, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
3 The Department of Pathology and Pediatrics and the LaRabida Sanitarium, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
4 The Department of Pediatrics and the LaRabida Sanitarium, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

Renal scanning with technetium-99m-iron complex has proven to be a rapid and accurate method for kidney localization prior to percutaneous renal biopsy. Kidney tissue was obtained on each of 17 biopsies in patients ranging from age 3 to 15 years. The physical properties of this scanning agent make it an isotope of choice in the pediatric age group and radiation exposure with this technique is less than frac12 rad.

Submitted on November 21, 1966
Accepted on February 6, 1967