Laparoscopy for living donor nephrectomy - Particularities of the currently applied techniques

Transplant International

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1019-1027

  Giessing, Markus ^a   Turk, Ingolf ^b   Roigas, Jan ^a   Schönberger, Bernd ^a   Loening, Stefan A ^a   Deger, Serdar ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Laparoscopic living renal donation; Laparoscopy; Living renal donor

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; URETER; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 26944481197     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2005.00165.x     Document Type: Review

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