Treatment of ureteric calculi - Use of holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy versus pneumatic lithoclast

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 440-443

  Tipu, Salman Ahmed ^a   Malik, Hamrnad Afzal ^a   Mohhayuddin, Nazim ^a   Sultan, Gauhar ^a   Hussain, Manzoor ^a   Hashmi, Altaf ^a   Naqvi, Syed Ali Anwar ^a   Rizvi, Syed Adibul Hasan ^a  

^a SINDH INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HOLMIUM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY PELVIS; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMATIC LITHOCLAST; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PYELOGRAPHY; RENOGRAPHY; SEX RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STONE ANALYSIS; URETER STONE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROSCOPE; URINE CULTURE; X IRRADIATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LITHOTRIPSY; METHODOLOGY; PAKISTAN; URETEROSCOPY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; PAKISTAN; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 38449096229     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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