Ureteroscopic Superiority to Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Small-to-medium-sized Intrarenal Non-staghorn Calculi

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 256-258

  Irwin, Brian H ^a   Desai, Mihir ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSCOPY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 67651113940     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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