A new thermo-expandable shape-memory nickel-titanium alloy stent for the management of ureteric strictures

BJU International

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 755-759

  Kulkarni, R P ^a,b   Bellamy, E A ^a  

^a Ashford Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b ASHFORD AND ST PETER'S HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Memokath 051; Nickel titanium; Shape memory alloy; Stricture; Ureter

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RENOGRAPHY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER STRICTURE; URINALYSIS; VAGINA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; STENTS; TITANIUM; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0032901544     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.00054.x     Document Type: Article

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