Floating Kidneys: A Century of Nephroptosis and Nephropexy
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 158 (3), 699-702
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(01)64296-4
Abstract
Purpose: Recently trained physicians are often unfamiliar with nephroptosis. Nephropexy, once a routine operation, almost disappeared from American practice more than 2 decades ago. In view...Keywords
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