Renal needle biopsy along the retrograde puncture line of the renal calyx: A new promising technique

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 165-168

  Mimata, Hiromitsu ^a   Kasagi, Yasuhiro ^a   Nasu, Nobuyoshi ^a   Nomura, Takeo ^a   Matsubara, Takanori ^a   Nakagawa, Masayuki ^a   Nomura, Yoshio ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopty gun; Kidney; Needle biopsy; Retrograde nephrostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; NEEDLE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BARTTER SYNDROME; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031843701     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030243     Document Type: Article

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