Percutaneous Stone Manipulation

P Alken1, G Hutschenreiter1, R Günther1

  • 1Departments of Urology and Radiology, University of Mainz Medical School, Mainz, West Germany.

The Journal of Urology
|December 26, 2016
PubMed

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