A decade of minimally invasive donation: Experience with more than 1200 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies at a single institution

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-174

  Leventhal, Joseph R ^a   Paunescu, Smaranda ^a   Baker, Talia B ^a   Caciedo, J C ^a   Kocak, Burak ^a   Gallon, Lorenzo ^a   Friedewald, John ^a   Luo, Xunrong ^a   Kaufman, Dixon B ^a   Fryer, Jonathan P ^a   Abecassis, Michael M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor nephrectomy; Kidney renal transplantation; Laparoscopic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; REOPERATION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952904847     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01199.x     Document Type: Article

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