Ureteral Access Sheath Provides Protection against Elevated Renal Pressures during Routine Flexible Ureteroscopic Stone Manipulation

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-36

  Auge, Brian K ^a   Pietrow, Paul K ^b   Lallas, Costas D ^b   Raj, Ganesh V ^b   Santa Cruz, Robert W ^b   Preminger, Glenn M ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUVITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE URETEROSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IRRIGATION PRESSURE; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PELVIS; KIDNEY TUBULE PRESSURE; LAVAGE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROSTOMY TUBE; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETER; URETER STONE; URETERAL ACCESS SHEATH; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; PRESSURE; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 1542375071     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089277904322836631     Document Type: Article

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