Ureteral trauma: Preoperative studies neither predict injury nor prevent missed injuries

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 641-644

  Medina, Diana ^a   Lavery, Robert ^a   Ross, Steven E ^b   Livingston, David H ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^c University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; STAB WOUND; SUTURING METHOD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URETER STENT; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETER; UROGRAPHY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0031799460     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(98)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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