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Metadata
Title
Time to say good bye to shockwave lithotripsy?
Authors
Berkan Resorlu
Eyup Burak Sancak
Alpaslan Akbas
Murat Tolga Gulpinar
Publication date
01-02-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
World Journal of Urology / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0724-4983
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8726
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-013-1109-0

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