Management of the staghorn calculus: Multiple-tract versus single-tract percutaneous nephrolithotomy

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 220-223

  Ganpule, Arvind P ^a   Desai, Mahesh ^a  

^a MULJIBHAI PATEL UROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Flexible nephroscopy; Multiple tract PCNL; Single tract PCNL

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; NEPHROLITHOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAGHORN STONE; STONE ANALYSIS; STONE DISSOLUTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSCOPY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS;

EID: 39849105521     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3282f3e6e4     Document Type: Review

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