This article surveys the principles behind pediatric nuclear medi cine in terms useful to the referring pediatrician, and illustrates the kinds of children's lesions for which nuclear medicine diagnosis is helpful. Subsequent articles in this series will deal in more de tail with the procedures, materials and results mentioned here.
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