The Clavien classification system to optimize the documentation of PCNL morbidity

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-22

  Zuazu, Jorge Rioja ^a   Hruza, Marcel ^b   Rassweiler, Jens J ^b   De La Rosette, Jean J M C H ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Complications; Percutanous nephrolithotomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLAVIEN CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON INJURY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOUROLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBID OBESITY; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA; UNITED STATES; URINE EXTRAVASATION;

HUMANS; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953296077     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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