Clinical outcome of ureteroscopic lithotripsy for 2,129 patients with ureteral stones

Urological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 149-153

  Kurahashi, Toshifumi ^a   Miyake, Hideaki ^a   Oka, Nobutoshi ^b   Shinozaki, Masashi ^b   Takenaka, Atsushi ^a   Hara, Isao ^a   Fujisawa, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hara Genitourinary Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; Ultrasonic lithotripsy; Ureteral stones; Ureteroscopic lithotripsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; JAPAN; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETER STONE; URETEROLITHOTOMY;

ADULT; ALUMINUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPES; YTTRIUM;

EID: 34249746158     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-007-0095-3     Document Type: Article

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