Current trends in the diagnosis and management of renal nutcracker syndrome: A review

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 410-416

  Ahmed, K ^a   Sampath, R ^a   Khan, M Shamim ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AORTA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG VARICOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MANOMETRY; PATIENT CARE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL NUTCRACKER SYNDROME; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; STENT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETEROSCOPY; VARICOCELE; VARICOSIS; VENOUS REFLUX;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; RENAL CIRCULATION; RENAL VEINS; STENTS; SYNDROME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33645034086     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2005.05.045     Document Type: Review

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