Outcomes using a fourth‐generation lithotripter: a new benchmark for comparison?

To evaluate the efficacy of a fourth‐generation lithotripter, the Sonolith Vision (Technomed Medical Systems, Vaulx‐en‐Velin, France) for treating single previously untreated renal calculi, and to compare the results with the reference standard HM‐3 (Dornier MedTech Europe GmbH, Wessling, Germany) in the same population originally studied by the USA Cooperative Study Group in 1986.

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