Determining the incidence of horseshoe kidney from radiographic data at a single institution

Journal of Urology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1722-1726

  Weizer, Alon Z ^a   Silverstein, Ari D ^a   Auge, Brian K ^b   Delvecchio, Fernando C ^a   Raj, Ganesh ^a   Albala, David M ^a   Leder, Richard ^a   Preminger, Glenn M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormalities; Anatomy; Kidney; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RENOGRAPHY; SCREENING;

EID: 0141954188     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000092537.96414.4a     Document Type: Article

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