A single institution experience of 141 cases of laparoscopic radical nephrectomy with cost-reductive measures

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 445-449

  Kumar, Anup ^a   Gupta, Narmada P ^a   Hemal, Ashok K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; COLON INJURY; COST CONTROL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCISIONAL HERNIA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; COST; ECONOMICS; LAPAROSCOPE; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 65549165149     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2008.0235     Document Type: Article

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