Clinical effectiveness protocols for imaging in the management of ureteral calculous disease: AUA technology assessment

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1203-1213

  Fulgham, Pat Fox ^a   Assimos, Dean G ^c   Pearle, Margaret Sue ^b   Preminger, Glenn M ^d  

^a Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical protocols; diagnostic imaging; ureteral calculi

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; IODINE;

ALLERGIC REACTION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST; DECISION TREE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LITHOTRIPSY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NONCONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY; URETHRAL CATHETERIZATION; UROGRAPHY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES; URETERAL CALCULI; UROLOGY;

EID: 84875924857     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.10.031     Document Type: Review

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