Summary and Conclusion
An analysis of the literature and our own experience with 180 patients strongly support the preoperative employment of intravenous pyelography in colorectal surgery.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proactologic Society, New York, New York, June 11 to 14, 1972.
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Prager, E., Swinton, N.W., Corman, M.L. et al. Intravenous pyelography in colorectal surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 16, 479–481 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02588873
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