Volume-outcome effects for children undergoing resection of renal malignancies

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Axt, Jason R ^a   Murphy, Andrew J ^a   Arbogast, Patrick G ^b   Lovvorn III, Harold N ^a  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Volume outcome effects; Wilms' tumor

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACID ASPIRATION; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; ILEUS; KIDNEY CANCER; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEROMA; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84865065152     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.03.065     Document Type: Article

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