Determinants of Quality of Life for Patients With Kidney Stones

Journal of Urology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2238-2243

  Bensalah, Karim ^a   Tuncel, Altug ^a   Gupta, Amit ^a   Raman, Jay D ^a   Pearle, Margaret S ^a,b   Lotan, Yair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; kidney; kidney calculi; quality of life; questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; CITRATE POTASSIUM; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETEROSCOPY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 43049119610     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.01.116     Document Type: Article

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