Efficacy of Holmium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet (YAG) Laser in the Treatment of Proximal Ureteral Stones in Adults

Zafar Ahmad Khan, Javed Miandad, Rizwan Kundi, Komal Amin, Mehran Fazal, Miraj Ahmad

DOI: 10.7759/cureus.93004
Published: 2025-09-23
Container: Cureus
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Open access: unknown

Credibility signals

serious concern Score 29/100 under policy 1.0.0. This is a metadata assessment, not a judgment of the paper's conclusions.

Show all credibility signals

supportingDOI registered: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
supportingDOI resolves: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
not scoredDirectory of Open Access Journals: No matching DOAJ record was present in this response. No allow-list match; this is not evidence of low credibility. Source: DOAJ; license: CC0
not scoredMEDLINE indexed: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredKnown publisher allow-list: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredROR affiliation: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
serious concernRetraction Watch retraction: 1 retraction notice matched this DOI. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch expression of concern: No expression of concern notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch correction: No correction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch reinstatement: No reinstatement notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredOpen access status: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication license: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication version: A publication version was supplied but is not scored. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
supportingMetadata completeness: All 6 scored descriptive metadata groups are present. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer

Cite this work

BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.7759/cureus.93004,
  title = {Efficacy of Holmium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet (YAG) Laser in the Treatment of Proximal Ureteral Stones in Adults},
  author = {Zafar Ahmad Khan and Javed Miandad and Rizwan Kundi and Komal Amin and Mehran Fazal and Miraj Ahmad},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Cureus},
  doi = {10.7759/cureus.93004},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.93004}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Efficacy of Holmium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet (YAG) Laser in the Treatment of Proximal Ureteral Stones in Adults
AU  - Zafar Ahmad Khan
AU  - Javed Miandad
AU  - Rizwan Kundi
AU  - Komal Amin
AU  - Mehran Fazal
AU  - Miraj Ahmad
PY  - 2025
JO  - Cureus
DO  - 10.7759/cureus.93004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.93004
ER  -

APA

Khan, Z. A., Miandad, J., Kundi, R., Amin, K., Fazal, M., & Ahmad, M. (2025). Efficacy of Holmium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet (YAG) Laser in the Treatment of Proximal Ureteral Stones in Adults. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.93004

Source records

crossref · retrieved 2026-09-24T18:46:44.157Z