The history of kidney stone dissolution therapy: 50 years of optimism and frustration with Renacidin

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-118

  Gonzalez, Ricardo D ^a   Whiting, Bryant M ^a   Canales, Benjamin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; EDETIC ACID; MAGNESIUM CITRATE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLADDER STONE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; KIDNEY NECROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE PRESSURE; KLEBSIELLA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PYELOLITHOTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STONE DISSOLUTION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER CATHETER; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

CITRATES; DRUG DISCOVERY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84856693543     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2011.0380     Document Type: Review

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