A comparison of recipient renal outcomes with laparoscopic versus open live donor nephrectomy

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 722-728

  Nogueira, Joseph M ^a   Cangro, Charles B ^a   Fink, Jeffrey C ^a   Schweitzer, Eugene ^a   Wiland, Anne ^a   Klassen, David K ^a   Gardner, Jim ^a   Flowers, John ^a   Jacobs, Stephen ^a   Cho, Eugene ^a   Philosophe, Benjamin ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a   Weir, Matthew R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033558996     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199903150-00014     Document Type: Article

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