Congenital urinary tract obstruction: Proceedings of the state-of-the-art strategic planning workshop - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 11-12 March 2002

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 576-606

  Chevalier, Robert L ^a   Peters, Craig A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Hydronephrosis; Neonate; Obstructive nephropathy; Prenatal intervention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADAPTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CYSTOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNITED STATES; URETHROSCOPY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT SURGERY; URODYNAMICS; WORKSHOP;

EID: 0037484198     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-003-1074-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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