Cryotherapy of the nephrostomy tract: A novel technique to decrease the risk of hemorrhage after tubeless percutaneous renal surgery

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 417-420

  Okeke, Zeph ^a   Andonian, Sero ^a   Srinivasan, Arun ^a   Shapiro, Edan ^a   Vanderbrink, Brian A ^a   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a   Smith, Arthur D ^a  

^a The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROSTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; BLEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65549125884     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2008.0244     Document Type: Article

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