Semirigid ureteroscopy in management of large proximal ureteral calculi: Is there still a role in developing countries?

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1064-1068

  Khairy Salem, Hosny ^a,b   El Ghoneimy, Mohamed ^a,b   El Atrebi, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b El Sahel Teaching Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; URETER DILATATION; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETEROSCOPY;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPES; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 79955632961     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.08.067     Document Type: Article

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