Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 621-626 , October 2009

Comparison of laparoscopic transabdominal lateral versus posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy

,Accepted 30 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.057

Surgery
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