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Diseases of the urologenital tract in childhood are very different from these of adults. At adults mostly we have tumors, at children there are in addition to that congenital malformations and also traumatic conditioned diesease. This wide spectrum of diseases in pediatric urology performs a manifold use of different laser systems, where especially the Nd:YAG laser became qualified because its radiation can be transmitted by fiber without any problem (Fig. 1).
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Berlien, HP., Biewald, W., Waldschmidt, J., Müller, G. (1988). Laser Application in Pediatric Urology. In: Waidelich, W., Waidelich, R. (eds) LASER Optoelectronics in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72870-9_89
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