The most reliable preoperative assessment of renal stone burden as a predictor of stone-free status after flexible ureteroscopy with holmium laser lithotripsy: A single-center experience

Urology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 524-528

  Ito, Hiroki ^a,b   Kawahara, Takashi ^a,b   Terao, Hideyuki ^a   Ogawa, Takehiko ^b   Yao, Masahiro ^b   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^b   Matsuzaki, Junichi ^a  

^a Ohguchi East General Hospital   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE STONE DIAMETER; ENDOSCOPE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL STONE BURDEN; RENAL STONE VOLUME; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETEROSCOPY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 84865464617     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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