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ReviewUrolithiasis2018

Intracorporeal lithotripsy.

Peter Alken

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Review in Urolithiasis, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter AlkenDepartment of Urology, University Clinic Mannheim, Theodor Kutzer Ufer 1-3, 68167, Mannheim, Germany. peter.alken@medma.uni-heidelberg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4819-6757

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the introduction of ESWL, PNL and URS during the early 1980s the application rate of ESWL has declined while those of PNL and URS have increased. This is mainly due to the facts that instruments and techniques for Intracorporeal Lithotripsy (IL) have made a continuous progress. This review shows that today an array of options for IL within the entire urinary tract is available to treat stones in a perfect minimal invasive way. At the same time further improvements of IL are already visible.

Indexed as

HumansLaser TherapyLithotripsyUrinary CalculiBallistic lithotripsyElectrohydraulic lithotripsyHolmium:YAG laserImpact lithotripsyIntracorporeal lithotripsyLaser lithotripsyUltrasound lithotripsy

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Registered trials

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