Is there a role for tamsulosin after shock wave lithotripsy in the treatment of renal and ureteral calculi?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 495-498

  Falahatkar, Siavash ^a   Khosropanah, Iradj ^a   Vajary, Anahita Doustkhah ^a   Bateni, Zhoobin Heidari ^b   Khosropanah, Darya ^a   Allahkhah, Aliakbar ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; TAMSULOSIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URETER STONE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; SULFONAMIDES; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 79952676036     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2010.0439     Document Type: Article

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