Ureteral Metal Stents: 10-Year Experience With Malignant Ureteral Obstruction Treatment

Journal of Urology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2613-2618

  Liatsikos, Evangelos N ^a   Karnabatidis, Dimitrios ^a   Katsanos, Konstantinos ^a   Kallidonis, Panagiotis ^a   Katsakiori, Paraskevi ^a   Kagadis, George C ^a   Christeas, Nikolaos ^a   Papathanassiou, Zafiria ^a   Perimenis, Petros ^a   Siablis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

palliative care; stents; ureter; ureteral neoplasms; ureteral obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; BLADDER TUMOR; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY TUMOR; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RESTENOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; ULTRASOUND; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER TUMOR; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERUS TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; URETER; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 71849111116     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.08.040     Document Type: Article

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