Does replacing intravenous pyelography with noncontras helical computed tomography benefit patients with suspected acute urolithiasis?

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 144-148

  Worster, Andrew ^a   Haines, Ted ^b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; UROLITHIASIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY CALCULI; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 0036618462     PISSN: 08465371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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