The (soon forgotten) art of open stone surgery: To train or not to train?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 214-217

  Buchholz, Noor Niels Peter ^a   Hitchings, Andrew ^a   Albanis, Stephanos ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Open surgery; Stone surgery; Surgical training; Urology training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; KIDNEY SURGERY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PYELOPLASTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LONDON; URINARY CALCULI; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGY;

EID: 33644949881     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588406X95075     Document Type: Article

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