Barriers to the diffusion of advanced surgical techniques

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1646-1649

  Richstone, Lee ^a   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a  

^a The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTINENCE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL NEPHRECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEPHRECTOMY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; ROBOTICS; UROLOGY;

EID: 42149137363     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23369     Document Type: Review

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