Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy 1997 to 2003: Lessons learned with 500 cases at a single institution

Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 881-890

  Leventhal, Joseph R ^b   Kocak, Burak ^a   Salvalaggio, Paolo R O ^a   Koffron, Alan J ^a   Baker, Talia B ^a   Kaufman, Dixon B ^a   Fryer, Jonathan P ^a   Abecassis, Michael M ^a   Stuart, Frank P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Transplantation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY INJURY; CHYLOUS ASCITES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VEIN INJURY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 4744361675     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.06.025     Document Type: Article

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