The Efficacy of Medical Expulsive Therapy (MET) in Improving Stone-free Rate and Stone Expulsion Time, after Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (SWL) for Upper Urinary Stones: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Urology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1057-1064

  Skolarikos, Andreas ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Grivas, Nikolaos ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Kallidonis, Panagiotis ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Mourmouris, Panagiotis ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Rountos, Thomas ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Fiamegos, Alexandros ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Stavrou, Sotirios ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Venetis, Chris ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d Ippokration Hospital Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOREITO; HERBACEOUS AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PLANT EXTRACT; ROWATINEX; TERPENE; URISTON;

HUMAN; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; META ANALYSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; NIFEDIPINE; PLANT EXTRACTS; TERPENES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 84955727232     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.09.004     Document Type: Review

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