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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(9):2674-2675; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl107
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Hand-assisted retroperitoneoscopic living donor nephrectomy: first UK experience

Email: jiri.fronek@Stgeorges.nhs.uk

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Sir,

Hand-assisted retroperitoneoscopic (HAR) approach is considered a safer procedure than open and conventional laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy [1,2]. This approach enables immediate control of bleeding that minimizes the possibility of conversion to open surgery. The retroperitoneal approach also reduces the risk of intestinal injury and post-operative intestinal complications, with shorter hospital stay and convalescence [3]. We assume that the introduction of this approach may . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. P. J. Fronek, R. W. S. Chang and M. A. Morsy

Renal Transplant Unit St George's Hospital London, UK


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