Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Nutcracker Syndrome: A Single-Center Experience

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 871-876

  Wang, Long ^a   Yi, Lu ^a   Yang, Luoyan ^a   Liu, Ziting ^a   Rao, Jianming ^a   Liu, Longfei ^a   Yang, Jinrui ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; AORTA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY PHLEBOGRAPHY; KIDNEY TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY TUBULE PRESSURE; KIDNEY VEIN COMPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTCRACKER SYNDROME; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARICOCELE; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN GRAFT; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 63149180870     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.11.043     Document Type: Article

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