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Update on intracorporeal laser lithotripsy
A Papatsoris1, M Chrisofos, A Skolarikos
1University Department of Urology, Sismanoglio Hospital, Athens, Greece. agpapatsoris@yahoo.gr
Abstract:
Nowadays, rigid and flexible ureteroscopy is a precise, minimal invasive surgery that can assess the entire collecting system in order to treat a stone with intracorporeal lithotripsy. The implication of laser technology has revolutionized the intracorporeal lithotripsy. Currently, laser lithotripsy is advancing in two different directions: improvements of the existing Ho:YAG laser platform and the development of novel laser systems. Herein, we review the current literature upon intracorporeal lithotripsy.
