How Small Can We Go? Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Using 6F Nephroureteral Catheter

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 629-632

  Canales, Benjamin K ^a   Karlovsky, Matthew E ^b   Monga, Manoj ^a   Seidmon, E James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URETER CATHETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL CALCULI; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 34147185298     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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