Significance and imaging of lumbar veins and early-branching arteries in planning living-donor laparoscopic nephrectomy: Two case reports from 21 months' experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2347-2349

  Deak P A ^a   Doros, A ^a   Lovro Zs ^a   Juhasz E ^a   Branstetter, G ^a   Kovacs J B ^a   Piros, L ^a   Jaray J ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; LUMBAR ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL ARTERY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955522772     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.05.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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