Morbidity associated with surgical treatment of ureteric calculi in a teaching hospital in Kuwait

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 340-346

  Kehinde, E O ^a   Al Awadi, K A ^a   Al Hunayan, A ^a   Okasha, G H ^a   Al Tawheed, A ^a   Ali, Y ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Morbidity; Surgical audit; Ureteric calculi; Ureterolithotomy; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; PATIENT CARE; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH MUCOSA INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETER; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; KUWAIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL CALCULI; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY; UROLOGY;

EID: 0141719325     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588403769162477     Document Type: Article

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