Investigation of loin pain

Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-56

  Freeman, S J ^a   Sells, H ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CYSTINE; URATE; XANTHINE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY TUMOR; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENOGRAPHY; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY; URINALYSIS; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 55849140489     PISSN: 09656812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/imaging/77638947     Document Type: Review

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