Is there a role for the intravenous urogram in the 21st century?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-65

  Whitfield, Ahn ^a   Whitfield, H N ^b  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FUROSEMIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY DISEASE; LASER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UROLOGY;

COLIC; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 30044431569     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588406X83168     Document Type: Article

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