Impacted upper-ureteral calculi >1 cm: Blind access and totally tubeless percutaneous antegrade removal or retrograde approach?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 616-619

  Karami, Hossein ^a   Arbab, Amir Haji Mohammad Mehdi ^a,b   Hosseini, Seyed Jalil ^a   Razzaghi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Simaei, Navid Reza ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHOTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSURETHRAL URETEROLITHOTRIPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETER STONE; URETEROLITHOTRIPSY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPES;

EID: 33846435178     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.20.616     Document Type: Article

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