Determining the efficacy of ultrasonography for the detection of ureteral stone

Urology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 533-537

  Kanno, Toru ^a   Kubota, Masashi ^a   Sakamoto, Hiromasa ^b   Nishiyama, Ryuichi ^a   Okada, Takashi ^a   Higashi, Yoshihito ^a   Yamada, Hitoshi ^a  

^a Ijinkai Takeda General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STONE SIZE; URETER STONE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETERAL CALCULI; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 84906824019     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.04.047     Document Type: Article

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