Evaluation of the Effects of Relationships Between Main Spatial Lower Pole Calyceal Anatomic Factors on the Success of Shock-Wave Lithotripsy in Patients with Lower Pole Kidney Stones

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 801-805

  Sahinkanat, Tayfun ^a   Ekerbicer, Hasan ^a   Onal, Bulent ^b   Tansu, Nejat ^b   Resim, Sefa ^a   Citgez, Sinharib ^b   Oner, Armagan ^b  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URETER; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY CALICES; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 42749096628     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.052     Document Type: Article

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