Correlation of ureteric length with anthropometric variables of surface body habitus

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1119-1122

  Hruby, Gregory W ^a   Ames, Caroline D ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Monga, Manoj ^b   Landman, Jaime ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometric; Body habitus; Ureteric length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URETER; URETER STENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STENTS; URETER;

EID: 34247145413     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06757.x     Document Type: Article

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