Need for standardization in defining parameters and success in clinical trials involving surgical treatment of urinary lithiasis

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-90

  Bird, Vincent G ^a   Bird, Victoria Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; URETER STONE; URETER SURGERY; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 79955796093     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-011-0173-5     Document Type: Note

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