Laparoscopic versus open donor nephrectomy: Comparing ureteral complications in the recipients and improving the laparoscopic technique

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 497-502

  Philosophe, Benjamin ^a,b   Kuo, Paul C ^a   Schweitzer, Eugene J ^a   Farney, Alan C ^a   Lim, James W ^a   Johnson, Lynt B ^a   Jacobs, Stephen ^a   Flowers, John L ^a   Cho, Eugene S ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Transplantation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; URETERAL DISEASES;

EID: 0032833483     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199908270-00009     Document Type: Article

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