The First Decade of a Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Program: Effect of Surgeon and Institution Experience with 512 Cases from 1996 to 2006

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-113

  Chin, Edward H ^a   Hazzan, David ^b   Edye, Michael ^a   Wisnivesky, Juan P ^a   Herron, Daniel M ^a   Ames, Scott A ^a   Palese, Michael ^a   Pomp, Alfons ^c   Gagner, Michel ^d   Bromberg, Jonathan S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349244017     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.02.060     Document Type: Article

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