Efficacy and safety of a new-generation shockwave lithotripsy machine in the treatment of single renal or ureteral stones: Experience with 2670 patients

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-27

  Egilmez, Tulga ^a   Tekin, Mehmet Ilteris ^a   Gonen, Murat ^a   Kilinc, Ferhat ^a   Goren, Resit ^a   Ozkardes, Hakan ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENERGY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIRENAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETER STONE; UROLITHIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 33846990486     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0174     Document Type: Article

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