Radiation Exposure in the Acute and Short-Term Management of Urolithiasis at 2 Academic Centers

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 668-673

  Ferrandino, Michael N ^a   Bagrodia, Aditya ^b   Pierre, Sean A ^a   Scales Jr , Charles D ^a   Rampersaud, Edward ^a   Pearle, Margaret S ^b   Preminger, Glenn M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

calculi; kidney; nephrolithiasis; radiation dosage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; URETER; UROLITHIASIS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGRAPHY; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 58149186444     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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