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Endourologist
An endourologist is a urologist with special expertise in navigating, using endoscopic optical instruments and other tools, inside the kidney, ureter and bladder. Endourologists are specialists in treating diseases of these organs
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- Residual Something left behind. With residual disease, the disease has not been eradicated
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- Lymphoma, Burkitt See: Burkitt lymphoma