Adjunctive Tamsulosin Improves Stone Free Rate After Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy of Large Renal and Ureteric Calculi: A Prospective Randomized Study

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1040-1042

  John, Tony T ^a   Razdan, Sanjay ^a  

^a Jackson South Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; TAMSULOSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER STONE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFONAMIDES; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951666515     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.07.1257     Document Type: Article

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