Complications of 2735 retrograde semirigid ureteroscopy procedures: A single-center experience

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Geavlete, Petrişor ^a,b   Georgescu, Dragoş ^a   Niţǎ, Gheorghe ^a   Mirciulescu, Victor ^a   Cauni, Victor ^a  

^a Saint John Emergency Clinical Hospital   (Romania)

^b Saint John Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BLEEDING; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KIDNEY COLIC; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PELVIS TUMOR; PERFORATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER TUMOR; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INJURY; UROLITHIASIS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL DISEASES; URETEROSCOPES; URETEROSCOPY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 33646104646     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.20.179     Document Type: Article

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