Ureteral stents: New ideas, new designs

Therapeutic Advances in Urology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-92

  al Aown, Abdulrahman ^a   Kyriazis, Iason ^a   Kallidonis, Panagiotis ^a   Kraniotis, Pantelis ^a   Rigopoulos, Christos ^a   Karnabatidis, Dimitrios ^a   Petsas, Theodore ^a   Liatsikos, Evangelos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

double pigtail; drug eluting stent; metal stents; resonance; stents; ureteral stents

Indexed keywords

COBALT; KETOROLAC; NITINOL; POLITEF; POLYLACTIC ACID; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM; TRICLOSAN;

BARE METAL STENT; BIOACTIVE STENT; BIODEGRADABLE STENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE J POLYMERIC STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DUAL DUROMETER STENT; DUAL LUMEN URETERAL STENT; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MESH STENT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOVEL STENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE STENT; REVIEW; TAIL STENT; THERMOEXPANDABLE SHAPE MEMORY STENT; URETER STENT; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 77955638724     PISSN: 17562872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756287210370699     Document Type: Review

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