Initial experience with robot-assisted minimally-invasive nephroureterectomy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 699-704

  Hu, Jim C ^a   Silletti, Joseph P ^a   Williams, Stephen B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTOSCOPY; CYSTOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LITHOTOMY POSITION; MALE; METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRAL CATHETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; ROBOTICS; URETER; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42249090027     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2007.0333     Document Type: Article

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