Prenatal diagnosis of a rare form of congenital mid-ureteral stricture: A case report and literature revisited

BMC Urology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brugnara, Milena ^a   Cecchetto, Mariangela ^a   Manfredi, Riccardo ^a   Zuffante, Michele ^a   Fanos, Vassilios ^b   Pietrobelli, Angelo ^a   Zaffanello, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; MERTIATIDE TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMBASE; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MEDLINE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETER STRICTURE; URETER SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UROGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 34447096322     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-7-8     Document Type: Article

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