Retroperitoneoscopic live donor nephrectomy (RPLDN): Establishment and initial experience of RPLDN at a single center

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 739-745

  Tanabe, Kazunari ^a   Miyamoto, Naoshi ^a   Ishida, Hideki ^a   Tokumoto, Tadahiko ^a   Shirakawa, Hiroki ^a   Yamamoto, Hirofumi ^a   Kondo, Tsunenori ^a   Okuda, Hisashi ^a   Shimmura, Hiroaki ^a   Ishikawa, Nobuo ^a   Nozaki, Taiji ^a   Toma, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Retroperitoneoscopic live donor nephrectomy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROPERITONEOSCOPIC LIVE DONOR NEPHRECTOMY; RETROPERITONEUM; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER STENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY;

EID: 20144389830     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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