Renal colic: A prospective evaluation of non-enhanced spiral CT versus intravenous pyelography

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-28

  Mendelson, Richard M ^a   Arnold Reed, Diane E ^b   Kuan, Melvyn ^a   Wedderburn, Andrew W ^a   Anderson, James E ^a   Sweetman, Gregory ^a   Bulsara, Max K ^b   Mander, Julian ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Intravenous pyelography; Renal colic; Ureteric colic

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URETER STONE; X RAY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOHEXOL; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 0037372849     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.2003.t01-2-01125.x     Document Type: Article

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