Utility and Limitation of Cumulative Stone Diameter in Predicting Urinary Stone Burden at Flexible Ureteroscopy with Holmium Laser Lithotripsy: A Single-Center Experience

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  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 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CUMULATIVE STONE DIAMETER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE URETEROSCOPE; HEALTH STATUS; HOLMIUM LASER LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETEROSCOPY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; UROLITHIASIS;

FEMALE; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 84878660446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065060     Document Type: Article

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