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- Title
Surgeons successfully remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina.
- Abstract
The article reports on the successful removal of healthy kidney via the donor's vagina. It cites that surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have successfully finished a surgical procedure that removes a healthy kidney by making a small incision located in the back of a donor's vagina. Robert Montgomery, chief of the Transplant Division at the university's medical school, stated that the procedure can promote better cosmetic result to the patient.
- Subjects
BALTIMORE (Md.); MARYLAND; KIDNEY surgery; JOHNS Hopkins University; MONTGOMERY, Robert; KIDNEY transplantation; SURGERY
- Publication
Women's Health (17455057), 2009, Vol 5, Issue 2, p112
- ISSN
1745-5057
- Publication type
Article