Imaging in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up of Stone Patients

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-47

  Dhar, Mrinal ^a   Denstedt, John D ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Imaging; Treatment; Urolithiasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FLUOROSCOPY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE UROGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RENOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URETEROSCOPY; UROGRAPHY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEPHROLITHIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 57449104540     PISSN: 15485595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ackd.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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