The Silence of the Stones: Asymptomatic Ureteral Calculi

Journal of Urology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1341-1344

  Wimpissinger, Florian ^a   Türk, Christian ^a   Kheyfets, Oleg ^a   Stackl, Walter ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

calculi; colic; nephrolithiasis; ureter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETER STONE; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; URETERORENOSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; URETEROSTOMY; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 34548427860     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.05.128     Document Type: Article

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