Diagnosis of ureteral obstruction in patients with compromised renal function: The role of noninvasive imaging modalities

Journal of Urology

Volumn 171, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages 2303-2306

  Shokeir, Ahmed A ^a   El Diasty, Tarek ^a   Eassa, Waleed ^a   Mosbah, Ahmed ^a   El Ghar, Mohamed Abou ^a   Mansour, Osama ^a   Dawaba, Mohamed ^a   El Kappany, Hamdy ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER STONE; BLADDER TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE UROGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY KIDNEY; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STONE; URETER STRICTURE; URETER TUMOR; URETEROGRAPHY; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 2442604348     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000124928.69055.10     Document Type: Article

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