Chemolitholysis and lithotripsy of infectious urinary stones - An in vitro study

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 212-218

  Heimbach, D ^a   Jacobs, D ^a   Muller S C ^a   Hesse, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apatite stones; Artificial stones (Bon(n) stones); Chemolitholysis; Shock wave lithotripsy; Struvite stones; Suby G solution

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DRUG; STRUVITE; SUBY G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; IN VITRO STUDY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STONE DISSOLUTION; URINARY TRACT; URINE; UROLITHIASIS;

APATITES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LITHOTRIPSY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHATES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLVENTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URINARY CALCULI; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036422750     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063942     Document Type: Article

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