Improvement of stone comminution by slow delivery rate of shock waves in extracorporeal lithotripsy

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1461-1465

  Kato, Yuji ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Hori, Junichi ^a   Okuyama, Mitsuhiko ^a   Kakizaki, Hidehiro ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Delivery rate; Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy; Shock wave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SHOCK WAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 33751221943     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01609.x     Document Type: Article

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