Ureteric injuries in Enugu, Nigeria

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 184-188

  Aghaji, A E ^a   Odoemene, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; INJURY;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; ILEUM RESECTION; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; PELVIS SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URETER LIGATION; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; URINARY TRACT FISTULA; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA DISEASE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

NIGERIA;

FISTULA;

EID: 0032590112     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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