Hand-assisted laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 294-297

  Chiong, Edmund ^a   Yip, S K H ^b   Cheng, W S ^b   Vathsala, A ^b   Li, M K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Living Donor; Nephrectomy

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVICE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC DONOR NEPHRECTOMY; HUMAN; INCISION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERITONEAL CAVITY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 3142730081     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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