Pneumothorax in pediatric patients after urological laparoscopic surgery: Experience with 4 patients

Journal of Urology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1256-1259

  Waterman, Bradley J ^a   Robinson, Ben C ^a   Snow, Brent W ^a   Cartwright, Patrick C ^a   Hamilton, Blake D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Complications; Laparoscopy; Pediatrics; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREATHING DISORDER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHEN URETER REIMPLANTATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PARTIAL NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URETER REIMPLANTATION; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

EID: 1542297815     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000108139.04768.55     Document Type: Article

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