Ureteroscopy for the management of stone disease

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-45

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULATION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETER INJURY; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETER STRICTURE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 75949099788     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.233     Document Type: Review

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