An overview of the literature on congenital lower urinary tract obstruction and introduction to the PLUTO trial: Percutaneous shunting in lower urinary tract obstruction

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-10

  Morris, R Katie ^a   Kilby, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congenital lower urinary tract obstruction; Posterior urethral valves; Randomised controlled trial; Vesico amniotic shunting

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHUNTING; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VESICOAMNIOTIC SHUNTING; AMNION; ANASTOMOSIS; BLADDER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION;

AMNION; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 66549107003     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00940.x     Document Type: Review

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