A comparison of the FREDDY and holmium lasers during ureteroscopic lithotripsy

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 637-640

  Yates, Jennifer ^a   Zabbo, August ^a   Pareek, Gyan ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

FREDDY; Holmium; Laser; Stone; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE DIBASIC; URIC ACID; WEDDELLITE; WHEWELLITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM OXALATE STONE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY DOUBLED DOUBLE PULSE NEODYNIUM YAG LASER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY; URETEROSCOPY; URIC ACID STONE;

CALCIUM OXALATE; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 35148899229     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20545     Document Type: Article

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