Functional obstruction: The renal pelvis rules

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 957-959

  Mendelsohn, Cathy ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; BLADDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PELVIS; MICTURITION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE NEPHROPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 2142655028     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI21402     Document Type: Review

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