Vesicoureteric reflux: All in the genes?

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9029, 1996, Pages 725-728

  Feather, S ^a   Gordon, I ^b   Risdon, RA ^b   Woolf, AS ^a   Jones, K Verrier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hospital for Sick Children   (United Kingdom)

^c Cardiff Royal Infirmary   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BLADDER MALFORMATION; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY SCAR; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCREENING; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0030583375     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)03419-8     Document Type: Article

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