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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 287-292 |
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Robotic assisted kidney transplantation
Pranjal Modi1, Bipinchandra Pal1, Jayesh Modi1, Suresh Kumar1, Akshay Sood2, Mani Menon2
1 Department of Urology and Transplantation Surgery, Smt. G. R. Doshi and Smt. K. M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
2 Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Correspondence Address:
Pranjal Modi
Smt. G. R. Doshi and Smt. K. M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380 016, Gujarat, India.
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-1591.135669
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Kidney transplantation is the standard of care for patients with end stage renal disease. While open surgery remains the gold standard, minimally invasive surgery has recently been introduced for the recipient undergoing kidney transplantation. We review the evolution of techniques of minimally invasive surgery for kidney transplantation with specific emphasis on technical aspects of robotic assisted kidney transplantation. |
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