Holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy: A dominan
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Chan, Kin Foong; Vassar, George J.; Pfefer, T. Joshua; Teichman, Joel M.H.; Glic
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background and Objective: Evidence is presented that the fragmentation process of long-pulse Holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG) lithotripsy is governed by photothermal decomposition of the calculi rather than photomechanical or photoacoustical mechanisms as is widely thought. The clinical Ho:YAG laser lithot