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Volume 4, Issue 3 , Pages 188-191 , June 2008

Long-term follow up of antenatally diagnosed megaureters

Boris Chertin
- Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Corresponding author at: Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, P.O.B 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel. Tel.: +972 2 655 5560; fax: +972 2 655 5160.
Avner Pollack
- Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Dmitry Koulikov
- Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Ron Rabinowitz
- Department of Obstetric Ultrasound Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Ori Shen
- Department of Obstetric Ultrasound Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Daniel Hain
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Irit Hadas-Halpren
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Ofer Z. Shenfeld
- Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Amicur Farkas
- Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medical Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 1 September 2007 ,Accepted 29 November 2007.

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