Milk of calcium in the inferior calyx of a hydronephrotic kidney in a tetraplegic patient - A diagnosis to be made before scheduling for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

Spinal Cord

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 325-326

  Vaidyanathan, S ^a   Parry, R ^a   Parsons, K F ^b   Singh, G ^a   Soni, B M ^a   Sett, P ^a  

^a District General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ESWL; Kidney calculi; Milk of calcium; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MILK; MILK OF CALCIUM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; X RAY;

EID: 0034124026     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101000     Document Type: Article

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