Ureterorenoscopy: Avoiding and managing the complications

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-259

  D'Addessi, Alessandro ^a   Bassi, Pierfrancesco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Intraoperative complications; Ureteral calculi; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTISONE;

BLEEDING; CLASSIFICATION; COLIC; DEVICE SAFETY; EXTRAVASATION; FALSE PASSAGE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MUCOSAL DISEASE; NEPHROSTOMY; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STEINSTRASSE; URETER; URETER AVULSION; URETER INJURY; URETER INTUSSUSCEPTION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER RUPTURE; URETER SURGERY; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; URETEROPYELOPLASTY; URETERORENOSCOPY; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY; URETEROURETEROSTOMY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KIDNEY; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; URETER; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 80055048268     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329286     Document Type: Review

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