A review of the natural progression of medullary sponge kidney and a novel grading system based on intravenous urography findings

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-269

  Forster, J A ^a   Taylor, J ^a   Browning, A J ^a   Biyani, C S ^a  

^a PINDERFIELDS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic intravenous urography; Follow up studies; Kidney; Sponge; Urography

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY SURGERY; MALE; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOHEXOL; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34047120170     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099350     Document Type: Article

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