Urology
Volume 70, Issue 4 , Pages 659-661 , October 2007

Treatment of Recurrent Symptomatic Lymphocele After Kidney Transplantation with Intraperitoneal Tenckhoff Catheter

  • Gian Luigi Adani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Udine University School of Medicine, Udine, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Gian Luigi Adani, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Udine University School of Medicine, via Colugna 50, Udine 3100 Italy.
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  • Umberto Baccarani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Udine University School of Medicine, Udine, Italy
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  • Andrea Risaliti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Udine University School of Medicine, Udine, Italy
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  • Daniele Gasparini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Interventional Radiology, AOSMM, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy
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  • Massimo Sponza

      Affiliations

    • Department of Interventional Radiology, AOSMM, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy
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  • Domenico Montanaro

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, AOSMM, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy
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  • Patrizia Tulissi

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, AOSMM, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy
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  • Dino De Anna
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  • Vittorio Bresadola

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Udine University School of Medicine, Udine, Italy

Received 13 November 2006 ,Accepted 17 May 2007.

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PII: S0090-4295(07)00602-4

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.05.018

Urology
Volume 70, Issue 4 , Pages 659-661 , October 2007

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