Treatment of upper urinary tract stones with flexible ureteroscopy in children
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Introduction of retrograde flexible ureteroscopy represented a leap forward in upper urinary tract endourology. Nowadays, areas of the pyelocaliceal system accessible otherwise only by percutaneous or open surgery, can be approached in a retrograde fashion, using the anatomical pathways. The flexible ureteroscopes evolved from the limited deflectable first generation ones to the digital very ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Urological Association Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1920-1214,1911-6470
DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.5283