Ureteroscopes: Flexible, rigid, and semirigid

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-32

  Basillote, Jay B ^a   Lee, David I ^a   Eichel, Louis ^a   Clayman, Ralph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPE; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; LITHOTRIPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHOCK WAVE; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROLOGY;

EID: 1242293766     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(03)00094-6     Document Type: Review

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