A single-center experience of the usefulness of caliceal-pelvic height in three different lithotripters

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1409-1415

  Ng, C F ^a,c   Wong, Annie ^a   Tolley, D A ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CALYX; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PELVIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALICES; LITHOTRIPSY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 50649095130     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0448     Document Type: Article

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