The polyScope: A modular design, semidisposable flexible ureterorenoscope system

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1061-1066

  Bader, Markus Juergen ^a,b   Gratzke, Christian ^a   Walther, Sebastian ^a   Schlenker, Boris ^a   Tilki, Derya ^a   Hocaoglu, Yasemin ^a   Sroka, Ronald ^b   Stief, Christian Georg ^a   Reich, Oliver ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEVICE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETERONEPHROSCOPY; URETEROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETEROSCOPES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954917931     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2010.0077     Document Type: Article

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