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Advances in Urology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 727843, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/727843
Clinical Study

The Effects of Local Administration of Aminophylline on Transureteral Lithotripsy

Ayyoub Barzegarnezhad,1 Abolfazl Firouzian,2 Seyed Abdollah Emadi,2 Nadali Mousanejad,1 and Roksana Bakhshali3

1Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
2Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran
3Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran

Received 26 May 2012; Revised 16 July 2012; Accepted 6 September 2012

Academic Editor: Maxwell V. Meng

Copyright © 2012 Ayyoub Barzegarnezhad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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