Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of radiolucent urinary calculi using the dornier HM-3 and HM-4 lithotriptors

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-49

  Kostakopoulos, A ^a   Stavropoulos, N J ^a   Louras, G ^a   Deliveliotis, Ch ^a   Dimopoulos, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; Radiolucent urinary calculi; Stone localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALKALINIZATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; URETER STONE; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 0031040367     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282945     Document Type: Article

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