Selective Postoperative Imaging After Ureteroscopy

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 490-493

  Adiyat, Kishore Thekke ^a   Meuleners, Rachel ^a   Monga, Manoj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549088866     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.09.064     Document Type: Article

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