Contemporary treatment trends for upper urinary tract stones in a total population analysis in Germany from 2006 to 2019: will shock wave lithotripsy become extinct?

World J Urol · 2022 · PMC8813696 · PMID 34453580

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentence

—

closest p

—

boldest claim

The sentences

a strong trendno p-value reported

The total number of in-hospital procedures for all upper tract urolithiasis increased from 70,099 cases in 2006 to 94,815 cases in 2019 and we observed a strong trend towards endoscopic or percutaneous procedures.

also in 5,725 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.