Is Kidney Surgery Going to be Minimally Invasive in All Cases?

European Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1549-1553

  Sulser, Tullio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPLASTY;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; URETER; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 35748960496     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.09.032     Document Type: Editorial

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