Conventional Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics

Preface.- Part 1 General considerations.- Management of the pediatric patient: a teamwork.- Radiation exposure.- The radiologist: nuclear medicine alter ego or best friend?.- Part 2 Clinical pediatric practice.- Nephrourology.- Oncology.- Gastroenterology.- Rheumatology.- Pulmonology.- Cardiology.- Endocrinology.- Miscellaneous.

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.