Endoscopic management of urologic disease with the holmium laser

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-237

  Delvecchio, Fernando C ^a   Preminger, Glenn M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LASER SURGERY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SAFETY; STONE DISSOLUTION; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER SURGERY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROGENITAL ENDOSCOPY;

ENDOSCOPY; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; PHYSICS; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 0034101441     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-200005000-00009     Document Type: Review

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