Effect of robotic assistance on the "learning curve" for laparoscopic hand-assisted donor nephrectomy

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1512-1517

  Horgan, S ^a   Galvani, C ^a   Gorodner, M V ^a   Jacobsen, G R ^a   Moser, F ^a   Manzelli, A ^b   Oberholzer, J ^b   Fisichella, M P ^b   Bogetti, D ^b   Testa, G ^b   Sankary, H N ^b   Benedetti, E ^b  

^a Minimally Invasive Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor nephrectomy; Kidney transplantation; Learning curve; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 34547647390     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9140-5     Document Type: Article

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