How do stone attenuation and skin-to-stone distance in computed tomography influence the performance of shock wave lithotripsy in ureteral stone disease?
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- 23 July 2015
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Urology
- Vol. 15 (1), 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12894-015-0069-7
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