Abdominal plain film in patients admitted with clinical suspicion of renal colic: Should it be replaced by low-dose computed tomography?

Urology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-68

  Poletti, Pierre Alexandre ^a   Platon, Alexandra ^b   Rutschmann, Olivier T ^b   Verdun, Francis R ^b   Schmidlin, Franz R ^b   Iselin, Christophe E ^b   Vermeulen, Bernard ^b   Sarasin, François P ^b   Buhler, Léo H ^b   Becker, Christoph D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30344482943     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.07.042     Document Type: Article

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