Instrumentation in endourology

Therapeutic Advances in Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 119-126

  Khanna, Rakesh ^a   Monga, Manoj ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

endourology; instrumentation; nephrolithotomy; technology; ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; NITINOL; POLITEF;

BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOUROLOGY; FLEXIBLE DIGITAL URETEROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 80051756796     PISSN: 17562872     EISSN: 17562880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756287211403190     Document Type: Review

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