National trends and cost of minimally invasive surgery in urology

Urology Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 49-54

  Chughtai, Bilal ^a   Scherr, Douglas ^a   Del Pizzo, Joseph ^a   Herman, Michael ^a   Barbieri, Christopher ^a   Mao, Jialin ^a   Isaacs, Abby ^a   Lee, Richard ^a   Te, Alexis E ^a   Kaplan, Steven A ^a   Schlegel, Peter ^a   Sedrakyan, Art ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystectomy; Medical oncology; Nephrectomy; Prostatectomy; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; UROLOGY;

EID: 84924554566     PISSN: 23520779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urpr.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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