Intracorporeal lithotripsy: Instrumentation and development

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-23

  Grocela, J A ^a   Dretler, S P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASER; ENDOSCOPE; HOLMIUM LASER; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTOMY; LITHOTRIPSY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; ULTRASONIC LITHOTRIPSY;

EID: 0031027798     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(05)70351-7     Document Type: Article

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