Endoluminal ultrasonography before retrograde endopyelotomy: Can the results match laparoscopic pyeloplasty?

BJU International

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-391

  Parkin, J ^a   Evans, S ^a   Kumar, P V S ^a   Timoney, A G ^a   Keeley Jr , F X ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossing vessels; Endoluminal ultrasonography; Endopyelotomy; PUJ obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPLASTY; PYELOTOMY; RENOGRAPHY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY PELVIS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 0037351564     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.2003.04103.x     Document Type: Article

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