Role of volume and attenuation value histogram of urinary stone on noncontrast helical computed tomography as predictor of fragility by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-37

  Yoshida, Soichiro ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuo ^a   Ikeda, Jun ^a   Yoshinaga, Atsushi ^a   Ohno, Rena ^a   Ishii, Nobuyuki ^a   Okada, Takemichi ^a   Osada, Hisato ^a   Honda, Norinari ^a   Yamada, Takumi ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ATTENUATION VALUE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL STONE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STONE; UROLITHIASIS;

HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 33745851167     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.01.052     Document Type: Article

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