Management of 10-15-mm Proximal Ureteral Stones: Ureteroscopy or Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy?

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-31

  Ziaee, Seyed Amir Mohsen ^a,b   Halimiasl, Parham ^a   Aminsharifi, Alireza ^a   Shafi, Hamid ^a   Beigi, Faramarz M A ^a   Basiri, Abbas ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY COLIC; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STONE; URETEROLITHOTOMY; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 38649123018     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.08.025     Document Type: Article

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