Use of the stone cone for prevention of calculus retropulsion during holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy: Case series and review of the literature

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 356-360

  Eisner, Brian H ^a   Dretler, Stephen P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithotripsy; Retropulsion; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCIDENCE; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDLINE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRASOUND; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STONE; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROSCOPY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65949117228     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209372     Document Type: Article

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