Is there still a role for open surgery in the management of renal stones?

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 106-111

  Alivizatos, Gerasimos ^a   Skolarikos, Andreas ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Indications; Open surgery; Urinary stones

Indexed keywords

DIVERTICULOSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOLITHOTOMY; PYELONEPHROLITHOTOMY; PYELOPLASTY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; UROLITHIASIS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 33744995841     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mou.0000193379.08857.e7     Document Type: Review

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