Editorial: Giving birth to an operation: Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy with vaginal extraction. Is this misconceived?

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1347-1348

  Ratner, L E ^a   Pescovitz, M D ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; EDITORIAL; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; NEPHRECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINA; FEMALE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TRANSPLANTATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; NEPHRECTOMY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77952935573     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03084.x     Document Type: Editorial

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