Staged retrograde endoscopic lithotripsy as alternative to PCNL in select patients with large renal calculi

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1421-1424

  Ricchiuti, Daniel J ^a,c   Smaldone, Marc C ^a   Jacobs, Bruce L ^a   Smaldone, Arlene M ^b   Jackman, Stephen V ^a   Averch, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c St Elizabeth Health Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE ENDOSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETEROSCOPE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSCOPES; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 38049168984     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2007.9871     Document Type: Article

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