Prone or Supine: Is This the Question?

European Urology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1216-1218

  Autorino, Riccardo ^a   Giannarini, Gianluca ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; EDITORIAL; GERMANY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; PRONE POSITION; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 55649107267     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.08.069     Document Type: Editorial

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