Measurement of renal anatomy for prediction of lower-pole caliceal stone clearance: Reproducibility of different parameters

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 447-451

  Knoll, Thomas ^a   Musial, Anton ^a   Trojan, Lutz ^a   Ptashnyk, Taras ^a   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^a   Alken, Peter ^a   Köhrmann, Kai Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141590318     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089277903769013577     Document Type: Article

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