A rare cause of ascites in a newborn: Posterior urethral valve: Letter to the Editor

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-155

  Gürgöze, Metin Kaya ^a   Yildirmaz, Serap ^a   Dòan, Yaşar ^a   Özel, Kerem ^a   Gün, Önder ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASCITES; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LETTER; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; URETHRA VALVE; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ASCITES; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROGRAPHY; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 76249100599     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02981.x     Document Type: Letter

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