Preliminary Experience with Holmium:YAG Laser Lithotripsy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 255-258

  Denstedt, John D ^a   Razvi, Hassan A ^a   Sales, Jack L ^a   Eberwein, Parker M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HOLMIUM; HUMAN; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETERAL DISEASES;

EID: 0029121110     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.1995.9.255     Document Type: Article

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