Current trends in ureteroscopy

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 181-187

  Bratslavsky, Gennady ^a   Moran, Michael E ^b,c  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b St Peter's Kidney Stone Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTUROLOGY; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SERVICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 1242293758     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(03)00096-X     Document Type: Review

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