“The take-home message is that there is a new form of lithotripsy,” says Jonathan D. Harper, MD.
In this video, Jonathan D. Harper, MD, discusses the next steps and the take-home message from the Journal of Urology study, “Fragmentation of Stones by Burst Wave Lithotripsy in the First 19 Humans,” for which he served as a study author. Harper is an associate professor of urology and adjunct associate professor of surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
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