The effect of fat and nonfat components of the skin-to-stone distance on shockwave lithotripsy outcome

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1825-1829

  Hammad, Fayez T ^a   Balakrishnan, Anita ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b DUBAI HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; STRUVITE; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LIPIDS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149390711     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2009.0685     Document Type: Article

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