Technology insight: Telementoring and telesurgery in urology

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 611-617

  Challacombe, Ben ^a   Kavoussi, Louis ^b   Patriciu, Alexandru ^b   Stoianovici, Dan ^b   Dasgupta, Prokar ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMINEPHRECTOMY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOCAL AREA NETWORK; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TELEMEDICINE; TELESURGERY; URETEROLITHOTOMY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; WIDE AREA NETWORK;

HUMANS; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGY;

EID: 33750736026     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0626     Document Type: Review

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