Efficacy and Safety of the Healthtronics LithoTron® Lithotripter

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Jain, Pankaj M ^a   Goharian, Nazli ^b   Weiser, Adam C ^a   User, Herbert M ^a   Kimm, Simon ^a   Kim, Samuel C ^a   Stern, Jeffrey A ^a   Pazona, Joseph ^a   Wambi, Christopher ^a   Yap, Ronald ^a   Blunt, Lynn W ^a   Nadler, Robert B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDATIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; ELECTRODE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; URETER STONE; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY CALCULI; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 10744228820     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089277904322836587     Document Type: Article

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