Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: Low complication rates, despite more challenging cases

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 859-864

  Ahearn, Aaron J ^a   Posselt, Andrew M ^a   Kang, Sang Mo ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Freise, Chris E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960425961     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.156     Document Type: Article

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