Ureteral Obstruction: Is the Full Metallic Double-Pigtail Stent the Way to Go?

European Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 480-487

  Liatsikos, Evangelos ^a   Kallidonis, Panagiotis ^a   Kyriazis, Iason ^a   Constantinidis, Constantinos ^b   Hendlin, Kari ^c   Stolzenburg, Jens Uwe ^d   Karnabatidis, Dimitrios ^a   Siablis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pigtail stent; Ureteral obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 74649084829     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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