Factors influencing urologist treatment preference in surgical management of stone disease

Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 996-1003

  Childs, M Adam ^a   Rangel, Laureano J ^a   Lingeman, James E ^b   Krambeck, Amy E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Methodist Institute for Kidney Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPE; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGIST;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; OWNERSHIP; PAIN; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URETEROSCOPES; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84860427167     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.11.024     Document Type: Article

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