Initial experience with laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy

Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 603-607

  Odland, Mark D ^a   Ney, Arthur L ^a   Jacobs, Donald M ^a   Larkin, Joan A ^a   Steffens, Eugenia K ^a   Kraatz, James J ^a   Rodriguez, Jorge L ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0032872840     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(99)70111-X     Document Type: Article

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