Stone clearance in lower pole nephrolithiasis after extra corporeal shock wave lithotripsy - The controversy continues

BMC Urology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-4

  Ather, M Hammad ^a   Abid, Fuad ^a   Akhtar, Sobia ^a   Khawaja, Karim ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; SHOCK WAVE; STONE ANALYSIS; STONE DISSOLUTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; LITHOTRIPSY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346125569     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-3-1     Document Type: Article

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