Role of color-coded Doppler sonography in the assessment of internal ureteral stent patency

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-203

  Haferkamp, Axel ^a   Brkovic, D ^a   Wiesel, M ^a   Staehler, G ^a   Dorsam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETER STENT;

EID: 0033054765     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.1999.13.199     Document Type: Article

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