Modified anatrophic nephrolithotomy for complete staghorn caculus disease: Does it still have a place?

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 426-430

  Melissourgos, Nicholas D ^a,b   Davilas, Elias N ^a   Fragoulis, Aristodimos ^a   Kiminas, Evangelos ^a   Farmakis, Antonios ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Calculi; Kidney; Staghorn calculi; Therapy

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANATROPHIC NEPHROLITHOTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROLITHOTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; STAGHORN STONE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036979113     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003655902762467576     Document Type: Article

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