Pneumatic lithotripsy versus holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy for the treatment of single ureteral stones: A prospective, single-blinded study

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 468-472

  Cimino, Sebastiano ^a   Favilla, Vincenzo ^a   Russo, Giorgio I ^a   Saita, Alberto ^a   Sortino, Giuseppe ^a   Castelli, Tommaso ^a   Veroux, Massimiliano ^b   Madonia, Massimo ^c   Morgia, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hounsfield unit; Laser lithotripsy; Lithiasis; Predictive factors; Stone free rate; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRARENAL STONE MIGRATION; JJ STENT; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PNEUMATIC LITHOTRIPSY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RIGID URETEROSCOPE; SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPTER; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SMALL MUCOSAL ULCERATION; URETER RUPTURE; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROSEPSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SOLID STATE LASER; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; YOUNG ADULT; LACERATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; URETER INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902547438     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355828     Document Type: Article

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