DMSA
DMSA n. dimercaptosuccinic acid, which when labelled with technetium-99m is used as a tracer to obtain scintigrams of the kidney, by means of a gamma camera, particularly to show scarring resulting from infection and to assess the relative quantity of functioning tissue in each kidney.
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