Does partial nephrectomy at an academic institution result in better outcomes?

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-510

  Trinh, Quoc Dien ^a,b   Schmitges, Jan ^b,c   Sun, Maxine ^b   Sammon, Jesse ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^d   Sukumar, Shyam ^a   Zorn, Kevin ^b   Bianchi, Marco ^b   Jeldres, Claudio ^b   Perrotte, Paul ^b   Graefen, Markus ^c   Rogers, Craig G ^a   Peabody, James O ^a   Menon, Mani ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic; Complication; Nephrectomy; Renal neoplasms; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864571022     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-011-0759-z     Document Type: Article

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