Effect of advanced age on laparoscopic urologic procedures

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-64

  Zhao, Lee C ^a   Rubenstein, Ronald A ^a   Vardi, Itay Y ^a   Tenggardjaja, Chris ^a   Smith, Norm ^a   Nadler, Robert B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846981117     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.9997     Document Type: Article

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