Pitfalls in radiologic and histopathologic diagnosis of urologic disease - Report of 4 cases

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1030-1039

  Vaidyanathan, Subramanian ^a   Soni, Bakul M ^a   Hughes, Peter L ^a   Mansour, Paul ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^a  

^a District General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Histopathology; Kidney angiomyolipoma; Pitfalls; Radiology; Ureteric calculus; Urology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERPLASIA; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY SCAR; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; ULTRASOUND; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROTHELIUM; UTERUS MYOMA; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CYSTITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; KIDNEY; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UROTHELIUM; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33847344242     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02850223     Document Type: Article

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