Upper urinary tract dilatation: Prenatal diagnosis, management and outcome

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 152-163

  Mure, Pierre Yves ^a   Mouriquand, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Obstruction; Pelvi ureteric junction; Prenatal diagnosis; Upper tract dilatation; Vesico ureteric junction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYSTOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY INNERVATION; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEGAURETER; MICTURITION CYSTOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TISSUE REACTION; UPPER URINARY TRACT DILATATION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; URINE FLOW IMPAIRMENT; UROGRAPHY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY TRACT; URODYNAMICS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 41549124437     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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