Oestroprogestagens and severe acute pyelonephritis: A casual or causal association? [2]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2337-

  Piccoli, Giorgina Barbara ^a   Colla, Loredana ^a   Mezza, Elisabetta ^a   Burdese, Manuel ^a   Cammarota, Teresa ^b   Piccoli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Radiology Unit San Lazzaro Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; GESTAGEN; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TORULOPSIS GLABRATA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA ATROPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGESTINS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA;

EID: 33748084699     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi054     Document Type: Letter

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