Guidelines for urological laparoscopic surgery: Guidelines

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-125

  Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a   Ono, Yoshinari ^b   Matsuda, Tadashi ^c   Terachi, Toshiro ^d   Suzuki, Kazuo ^e   Baba, Shiro ^f   Hara, Isao ^g   Hirao, Yoshihiko ^h  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Shintoshi Clinic   (Japan)

^f KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; CATHETERIZATION; CONVALESCENCE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OPEN SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PYELOPLASTY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 60349130642     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2008.02218.x     Document Type: Review

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