Patients' Quality of Life Following Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Lithotripsy and Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy for Renal Calculi

作者：Nicholas Mays, Ann Petruckevitch, Claire Snowdon · 发表于：International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care · 年份：1990 · DOI：10.1017/s026646230000427x · 被引用次数：26 · 研究领域：Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments、Poisoning and overdose treatments、Biomedical Research and Pathophysiology

The objective of this study was to test whether the relatively new, noninvasive technique of extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for renal stones resulted in a measurably better outcome from the patients' point of view than percutaneous surgery. The claimed superiority of ESWL was not demonstrated with the data available.