Renal ultrasonography in the evaluation of acute kidney injury: Developing a risk stratification framework

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 1900-1907

  Licurse, Adam ^b   Kim, Michael C ^a   Dziura, James ^b   Forman, Howard P ^a   Formica, Richard N ^c   Makarov, Danil V ^a   Parikh, Chirag R ^b   Gross, Cary P ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 78649665313     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.419     Document Type: Article

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