Initial experience with a newly developed antirefluxive ureter stent

Urological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-353

  Ritter, Manuel ^a   Krombach, Patrick ^a   Knoll, Thomas ^b   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^a   Haecker, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of Urology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ureter stent; Urolithiasis; USSQ

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIREFLUXIVE URETER STENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICTURITION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT DURATION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 84863986476     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: 14340879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-011-0415-5     Document Type: Article

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