Optimizing left-sided live kidney donation: Hand-assisted retroperitoneoscopic as alternative to standard laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 358-363

  Dols, Leonienke F C ^a   Kok, Niels F M ^a   Terkivatan, Turkan ^a   Tran, Khe T C ^a   Alwayn, Ian P J ^b   Weimar, Willem ^a   Ijzermans, Jan N M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hand assisted retroperitoneoscopic donor nephrectomy; Laparoscopy; Live kidney donation; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY; LAPAROSCOPIC DONOR NEPHRECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONOR; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEUM; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649250209     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00990.x     Document Type: Article

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