Update on technological and selection factors influencing shockwave lithotripsy of renal stones in adults and children

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-140

  Cortes, Janice A Santos ^a   Motamedinia, Piruz ^a   Gupta, Mantu ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Lithotripsy; shockwave lithotripsy; urolithiasis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; PLACEBO; TAMSULOSIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LITHOTRIPSY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOCKWAVE LITHOTRIPSY; STONE ANALYSIS; URETER STONE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHILD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DIURETICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951637059     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3283435c1f     Document Type: Article

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