Metallic full-length ureteral stents: Does urinary tract infection cause obstruction?

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Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 1566-1573

  Brown, James A ^a,b   Powell, Christopher L ^a   Carlson, Kristopher R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ureteral compression; Ureteral obstruction; Ureteral stents; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; ALLOY;

ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRAIN; ENDOPROSTHESIS LOOSENING; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRACTABLE PAIN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; OLIGURIA; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RENOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; URETER DISEASE; URETER STENT; URETERAL COMPRESSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; NEOPLASM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENT; URETER; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

ALLOYS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; URETER; URETERAL DISEASES; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 78349274982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.162     Document Type: Article

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