Current status of metal stents for managing malignant ureteric obstruction

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1066-1072

  Sountoulides, Petros ^a,b   Kaplan, Adam ^a   Kaufmann, Oskar Grau ^a   Sofikitis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Malignancy; Stents; Ureteric obstruction

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; BIOMATERIAL; CHROMIUM; COBALT; DACRON; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; NITINOL; POLITEF; POLYESTER; SILICON; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

BALLOON DILATATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; MATERIAL COATING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PELVIS TUMOR; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URINARY DIVERSION;

HUMANS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 77950282650     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.09140.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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