A Prospective, Randomized Trial of Management for Asymptomatic Lower Pole Calculi

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1424-1428

  Yuruk, Emrah ^a   Binbay, Murat ^a   Sari, Erhan ^a   Akman, Tolga ^a   Altinyay, Erkan ^a   Baykal, Murat ^a   Muslumanoglu, Ahmet Y ^a   Tefekli, Ahmet ^a  

^a HASEKI EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

cicatrix; kidney; kidney calculi; lithotripsy; nephrostomy; percutaneous

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; SUCCIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROSTOMY; OBSERVATION; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY CALICES; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949298607     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.12.022     Document Type: Article

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