Evolution of the technique of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy at a single center: Experience with more than 350 cases

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-436

  Srivastava, A ^a   Gupta, N ^a   Kumar, A ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Donor; Evolution; Kidney; Laparoscopy; Nephrectomy; Organ; Technique; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; HYPOTENSION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTESTINE INJURY; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPIC LIVE DONOR NEPHRECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 57649121749     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000167842     Document Type: Article

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