Endoscopic treatment of ureteric strictures: Acucise, cold-knife endoureterotomy and wall stents as a salvage approach

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 140-146

  Erdogru, Tibet ^a,b   Kutlu, Omer ^a   Koksal, Turker ^a   Danisman, Ahmet ^a   Usta, Mustafa F ^a   Kukul, Erdal ^a   Baykara, Mehmet ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endoureterotomy; Stent; Stricture; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD KNIFE ENDOURETEROTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTTING BALLOON ENDOURETEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOLITARY KIDNEY; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETER CATHETER; URETER STENT; URETER STRICTURE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY DIVERSION;

ADULT; AGED; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; STENTS; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 17244375454     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083285     Document Type: Article

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