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Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

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  1. Department of Urology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Osamu Ukimura MD, PhD

  2. Section of Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgery, Glickman Urological Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Inderbir S. Gill MD, MCh

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Thiel, D.D., Winfield, H.N. (2009). Harmonic Scalpel. In: Ukimura, O., Gill, I.S. (eds) Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-217-3_8

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