Does mini-incision donor nephrectomy improve quality of life in living kidney donors?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 235-240

  Schnitzbauer, Andreas A ^a   Hornung, Matthias ^a   Seidel, Ulrike ^a   Krüger, Bernd ^b   Krämer, Bernhard K ^b   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Obed, Aiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Living donor; Mini incision; Quality of life; Retroperitoneal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 34047163980     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00631.x     Document Type: Article

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