Use of doppler ultrasonography and rigid ureteroscopy for managing symptomatic ureteric stones during pregnancy

BJU International

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 262-266

  Elgamasy, Abdelnaser ^a   Elsherif, Ashraf ^b  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; pregnancy; stones; ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY PAIN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RENAL COLIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953858724     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08950.x     Document Type: Article

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