Ureteral endometriosis: A rare and underdiagnosed cause of kidney dysfunction

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ponticelli, Claudio ^a   Graziani, Giorgio ^a   Montanari, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Obstructive uropathy; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; CA 125 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 7; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADENOMYOSIS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; IRRITABLE COLON; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; URETER ENDOMETRIOSIS; URETER SURGERY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASES; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; URETERAL DISEASES;

EID: 70350542691     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000254380     Document Type: Short Survey

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