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ArticleJournal of endourology2025

Optimizing Fragmentation while Minimizing Thermal Injury Risk with the Thulium Fiber Laser in Ureteral Stone Lithotripsy: An In Vitro Study.

Arpit Mishra, Ezra J Margolin, Aaron W Stewart, Robert E Medairos, Jodi Antonelli, Glenn M Preminger, Pei Zhong, Michael E Lipkin

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Article in Journal of endourology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Arpit MishraThomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5207-937X
Ezra J MargolinDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9875-502X
Aaron W StewartDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Robert E MedairosDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Jodi AntonelliDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Glenn M PremingerDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Pei ZhongThomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Michael E LipkinDivision of Urology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

Assessment of the Optimal Settings of TFL for Laser Lithotripsy and Associated Thermal Injury RiskR01DK138972 · NIDDK · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI PEI ZHONG · 2025 to 2026
$1.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK138972
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BurnsLasersLithotripsyLithotripsy, LaserThuliumUreteral CalculiHumansIn Vitro TechniquesTemperatureUreterUreteroscopyThuliumfragmentationirrigation flow ratethermal injurythulium fiber laserureteral stones

Identifiers

PMID40346771
PMCPMC12259413

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