Gender-Based Differences in Pediatric Nuclear Medicine

Gender-based differences commonly encountered in pediatric nuclear medicine reflect both basic embryologic differences of the sexes, which are evident from infancy, and evolving physiological changes due to gender, which occur as the pediatric patient grows, undergoes puberty, and matures to adulthood. It is important for a nuclear medicine physician or radiologist to know both the gender and the age of a patient when interpreting her or his studies. It is also important that the reading physician be familiar with the normally evolving physiological changes that are specific for that patient’s stage of development.

Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - October 25, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Adina L. Alazraki, Kiery A. Braithwaite Source Type: research