Clinical predictors of stone fragmentation using slow-rate shock wave lithotripsy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 124-128

  Li, Wei Ming ^a   Wu, Wen Jeng ^a,b   Chou, Yii Her ^a,b   Liu, Chia Chu ^a   Wang, Chii Jye ^b,c   Huang, Chun Hsiung ^a,b   Lee, Yung Chin ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Calculi, fragmentation; Slow rate shock wave lithotripsy; Treatment outcome, shock wave lithotripsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 34548614638     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106324     Document Type: Article

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