Living donor nephrectomy

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-120

  Jacobs, Stephen C ^a,b   Flowers, John L ^a   Dunkin, Brian ^a   Sklar, Geoffrey N ^a   Cho, Eugene ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVER KIDNEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING DONOR; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY;

EID: 0033038504     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-199903000-00005     Document Type: Review

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