Factors influencing extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy efficiency for optimal patient selection

CONCLUSIONS: Both greater stone volume and stone surface area, as well as lower power delivered per stone volume unit during the ESWL procedure, were found to be significant factors and could be useful to predict treatment failure.PMID:34136039 | PMC:PMC8193744 | DOI:10.5114/wiitm.2021.103915

Source: Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques - June 17, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Marius Snicorius Arnas Bakavicius Albertas Cekauskas Marius Miglinas Gediminas Platkevicius Arunas Zelvys Source Type: research