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Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine in Paediatrics presents peculiar aspects and problems respect to its utilization in adults. In particular, because of the presence of ionizing radiations, its clinical use has to be justified on the basis of a favourable cost/effectiveness analysis. Technical problems may be found in all the steps of the examination, because they can be associated with many phases of the study as patient’s preparation, positioning, restraining, injection. The communication with the infant and her/his caregivers is very important to avoid narcosis and sedation and to optimize the diagnostic procedure. Nevertheless, because of its capability to give functional information, nuclear medicine procedures may find an important role in the diagnostic scenario either as first line techniques and/or to complement diagnosis with a further contribution more related to prognosis and therapy.
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Mansi, L., Cuccurullo, V., Prisco, M.R. (2016). Peculiar Aspects and Problems of Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine in Paediatrics. In: Mansi, L., Lopci, E., Cuccurullo, V., Chiti, A. (eds) Clinical Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21371-2_1
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