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Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Stone Disease in Emergency Settings

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Renal or ureteric pain is usually so characteristic that diagnosis is often instantaneous. However, it is always prudent to differentiate it from other more serious causes of abdominal pain, herpes, pain from intercostal nerve irritation, and musculoskeletal pain.

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  1. Department of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 37# Guoxuexiang Street, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610041, China

    Luo Yang M.D., Hong Li M.D. & Kunjie Wang M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Surgery Section of Urology, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan

    Jamsheer J. Talati

  2. Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 1, Solna, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden

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    David M. Albala

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    ZHANGQUN YE

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Yang, L., Li, H., Wang, K. (2012). Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Stone Disease in Emergency Settings. In: Talati, J., Tiselius, HG., Albala, D., YE, Z. (eds) Urolithiasis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4387-1_31

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