Reliability Assessment of Society for Fetal Urology Ultrasound Grading System for Hydronephrosis

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1680-1683

  Keays, M A ^a   Guerra, L A ^a   Mihill, J ^b   Raju, G ^a   Al Asheeri, N ^a   Geier, P ^a   Gaboury, I ^b   Matzinger, M ^a   Pike, J ^a   Leonard, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

diagnosis; hydronephrosis; kidney; reproducibility of results; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETAL UROLOGY ULTRASOUND GRADING SYSTEM; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 51049088594     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.03.107     Document Type: Article

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