A decade of minimally invasive donation: experience with more than 1200 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies at a single institution.

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Published in Clin Transplant on January 11, 2010

Authors

Joseph R Leventhal1, Smaranda Paunescu, Talia B Baker, Juan Carlos Caciedo, Anton Skaro, Burak Kocak, Lorenzo Gallon, John Friedewald, Xunrong Luo, Dixon B Kaufman, Jonathan P Fryer, Michael M Abecassis

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Organ Transplant, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. jleventh@nmh.org

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