Endoscopically guided percutaneous renal access: "Seeing is believing"

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 451-455

  Khan, Farhan ^a   Borin, James F ^a   Pearle, Margaret S ^b   McDougall, Elspeth M ^a   Clayman, Ralph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BALLOON; BODY BUILD; CYSTOSCOPE; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; MORBID OBESITY; NEEDLE; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBE; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY;

ENDOSCOPES; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 33746810035     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.20.451     Document Type: Article

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