Antenatal hydronephrosis: Changing concepts in diagnosis and subsequent management

BJU International

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 987-994

  Shokeir, A A ^a,c   Nijman, R J M ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c New Jeddah Clinic Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 0034092914     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.2000.00645.x     Document Type: Review

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