Does Obesity Impact the Costs of Partial and Radical Nephrectomy?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1714-1718

  Bensalah, Karim ^a   Raman, Jay D ^a   Bagrodia, Aditya ^a   Marvin, Andrea ^a   Lotan, Yair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carcinoma; cost analysis; kidney; nephrectomy; obesity; renal cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OBESITY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; OBESITY;

EID: 41749124755     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.01.035     Document Type: Article

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