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How to manage sepsis associated with ureteral calculi?

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  1. Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey

    Alpaslan Akbas

  2. Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag, Turkey

    Omer Kurt

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Akbas, A., Kurt, O. How to manage sepsis associated with ureteral calculi?. Urolithiasis 44, 285–286 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00240-016-0865-x

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