Should the indications for laparascopic live donor nephrectomy of the right kidney be the same as for the open procedure? Anomalous left renal vasculature is not a contraindication to laparoscopic left donor nephrectomy

Transplantation

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 660-664

  Mandal, Aloke K ^a,b   Cohen, Cynthia ^a   Montgomery, Robert A ^a   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a   Ratner, Lloyd E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0035868284     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200103150-00015     Document Type: Article

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