Retrograde Acucise endopyelotomy: Is it worth its cost?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 466-468

  Sofras, F ^a,b   Livadas, K ^a   Alivizatos, G ^a   Deliveliotis, Ch ^a   Albanis, S ^a   Melekos, M ^a   Christoforidis, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPLASTY; PYELOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 3042856762     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/0892779041271643     Document Type: Article

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