Intracorporeal lithotripsy with the Alexandrite laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 433-436

  Denstedt, John D ^a,b   Chun, Samuel S ^a   Dale Miller, M ^a   Eberwein, Parker M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

endoscopic lithotripsy; laser lithotripsy; renal calculi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 0030975602     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)20:4<433::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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