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- noun surgery The creation of a
nephrostome
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Examples
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A nephrostomy tube may be in place for days, weeks or months.
Nephrostomy Tube 2010
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Turns out he had stones all my chart said was "nephrostomy 1978" twenty years before I met him.
Archive 2007-01-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Micro-introducer kit and nephrostomy drain catheter and in the last quarter is specific
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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She has had 40 percent of her small intestine removed because of radiation damage and has had to wear both a colostomy bag and a nephrostomy bag.
NYT > Home Page By ALEX WITCHEL 2010
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Foreign bodies in the urinary tract, including: urinary catheters ureteric stents (long term internal drainage tubes) urethral stents (long term internal drainage tubes) nephrostomy tubes (external drainage tube draining the kidney)
unknown title 2009
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Foreign bodies in the urinary tract, including: urinary catheters ureteric stents (long term internal drainage tubes) urethral stents (long term internal drainage tubes) nephrostomy tubes (external drainage tube draining the kidney)
unknown title 2009
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