Double-J stent insertion across vesicoureteral junction-is it a valuable initial approach in neonates and infants with severe primary nonrefluxing megaureter?

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 870-875

  Castagnetti, Marco ^a   Cimador, Marcello ^a   Sergio, Maria ^a   De Grazia, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DOUBLE J STENT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEGAURETER; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER SURGERY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; STENTS; URETER; URETERAL DISEASES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY RETENTION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 33750345711     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.05.052     Document Type: Article

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