Management of Residual Stone Fragments

Smith's Textbook of Endourology: 3rd Edition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 662-674

  Skolarikos, Andreas ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy; Residual stone fragments; Shock wave lithotripsy; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885806250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345148.ch58     Document Type: Chapter

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