Effect of skin-to-stone distance on shockwave lithotripsy success

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1623-1627

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

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

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 50149099244     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2008.0169     Document Type: Article

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