Do new generation flexible ureterorenoscopes offer a higher treatment success than their predecessors?

Urological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 185-188

  Wendt Nordahl, Gunnar ^a   Mut, Tuna ^b   Krombach, Patrick ^c   Michel, Maurice Stephan ^c   Knoll, Thomas ^a  

^a Hospital Sindelfingen Böblingen   (Germany)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Flexible ureterorenoscopy; Kidney stone; Lower pole calculi

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLEXIBLE URETERORENOSCOPE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLITHIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSCOPES; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 80051672437     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: 14340879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-010-0331-0     Document Type: Article

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