Symptomatic refluxing distal ureteral stumps after nephroureterectomy and heminephroureterectomy. What should we do?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 204-206

  Casale, Pasquale ^a,c   Grady, Richard W ^b   Lee, Richard S ^b   Joyner, Byron D ^b   Mitchell, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney; Ureter; Vesico ureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BLADDER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERECTOMY; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 10344243009     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000147849.80627.41     Document Type: Article

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