More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 835-840

  Melcher, Marc L ^a   Carter, Jonathan T ^a   Posselt, Andrew ^a   Duh, Quan Yang ^a   Stoller, Marshall ^a   Freise, Chris E ^a   Kang, Sang Mo ^a   Orloff, Susan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLADDER INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCISION; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SAFETY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

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

EID: 25144514036     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.9.835     Document Type: Review

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