Treatment of renal transplant ureterovesical anastomotic strictures using antegrade balloon dilation with or without holmium:YAG laser endoureterotomy

Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 831-834

  Kristo, Blaine ^a   Phelan, Michael W ^a   Gritsch, H Albin ^a   Schulam, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HOLMIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROSTOMY; YAG LASER;

EID: 0242664223     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00655-1     Document Type: Article

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