Treatment Selection and Outcomes: Ureteral Calculi

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 421-430

  Wolf Jr , J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXAZOSIN; NIFEDIPINE; STEROID; TAMSULOSIN; TERAZOSIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEVER; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE URETEROSCOPY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETER INJURY; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STONE; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE EXTRAVASATION; URINOMA; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 34547493544     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2007.04.010     Document Type: Review

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