Ureteral stents: Morbidity and impact on quality of life

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 491-494

  Leibovici, Dan ^a,b   Cooper, Amir ^a,b   Lindner, Arie ^a,b   Ostrowsky, Regina ^a,b   Kleinmann, Judy ^a,b   Velikanov, Sergey ^a,b   Cipele, Helio ^a,b   Goren, Eliahu ^a,b   Siegel, Yoram I ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Double J stent; Morbidity; Pigtail; Quality of life; Ureteral stents

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLADDER IRRITATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; URETER DISEASE; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STENTS; URETER; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 23344453127     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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