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Table 1 Review of the literature

From: How do stone attenuation and skin-to-stone distance in computed tomography influence the performance of shock wave lithotripsy in ureteral stone disease?

    

Prediction of successful disintegration/treatment

 

References

Year

Stone location

n All/Renal/Ureteral

Mean attenuation value (MAV) All/Renal/Ureter

SSD All/Renal/Ureter

BMI All/Renal/Ureter

Cut off MAV/SSD/BMI

Joseph et al. [14]

2002

Renal

30/30/-

Yes/Yes/-

-/-/-

No/No/-

Renal: 950 HU/-/-

Pareek et al. [6]

2003

Renal and ureteral

50/20/30

Yes/Yes/Yes

-/-/-

No/-/-

Ureteral: 900 HU/-/-

Wang et al. [15]

2005

Renal

80/80/-

Yes/Yes/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

Renal: 900HU/-/-

Gupta et al. [16]

2005

Renal and proximal ureter

108/89/19

Yes/-/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

All: 750 HU/-/-

Yoshida et al. [17]

2006

Renal and proximal ureter

56/25/31

Yes/-/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

El Nahas et al. [3]

2007

Renal

120/120/-

Yes/Yes/-

Yes/Yes/-

Yes/Yes/-

Renal: 1000HU/-/-

Perks et al. [11]

2008

Renal

111/111/-

Yes/Yes/-

Yes/Yes/-

No/No/-

Renal: 900HU/9 cm/-

Ng et al. [7]

2009

Proximal ureter

94/-/94

Yes/-/Yes

Yes/-/Yes

No/-/No

Renal:593 HU/9.2 cm/-

Patel et al. [10]

2009

Renal

83/83/-

No/No/-

Yes/Yes/-

-/-/-

Renal: −/10 cm/-

Wiesenthal et al. [5]

2010

Renal and ureteral

422/218/204

Yes/Yes/Yes

Yes/Yes/Yes

Yes/No/Yes

All: 900 HU/ 11 cm/-

Park et al. [12]

2010

Renal

115/115/-

Yes/Yes/-

No/-/-

-/-/-

Renal: 863 HU/-/-

Shah et al. [18]

2010

Renal and proximal ureter

99/71/28

Yes/-/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

-/-/-

Tanaka et al. [13]

2013

Renal and ureteral

75/27/48

Yes/-/-

No/-/-

No/-/-

All: 780 HU/-/-

Celik et al. [8]

2015

Renal and ureteral

254/123/131

Yes/Yes/Yes

-/Yes/

-/Yes/-

Renal: 750 HU/-/-

Nakasato et al. [19]

2015

Renal and ureteral

260/92/168

Yes/-/-

No/-/-

-/-/-

All: 815 HU/-/-