Experience with ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy in children

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 579-581

  Safwat, Ahmed S ^a   Bissada, Nabil K ^a   Kumar, Udaya ^a   Taha, Mohamed I ^b   Abdel Hafez, Salah Eldin S ^b   Eltaher, Ahmed M ^b   Abdalla, Medhat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Laser; Lithotripsy; Pediatrics; Ureteral calculi; Urinary stones

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEMATURIA; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; LABORATORY TEST; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STENT; URETER DILATATION; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPIC HOLMIUM LASER LITHOTRIPSY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 42149149797     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-008-2119-7     Document Type: Article

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