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Predictors for urologic intervention and alternate diagnoses in people having computed tomography urography for suspected renal colic.

Gabriel Elan BlecherRobert MeekDiana Egerton-WarburtonPhilip McCahyCindy BachDaniel Boulos
Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2016)
Factors associated with urologic intervention included female sex, single kidney, calculus size >5 mm and proximal calculus. Information on acute alternate diagnoses was uncommon. A prospective study is needed to further clarify clinical parameters that could predict intervention to allow targeting of CTU to those most likely to benefit.
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