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Laparoscopy for Urologic Conditions

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Laparoscopic surgery can be divided into three areas: diagnostic, extirpative, and reconstructive. Because much of urologic surgery is reconstructive, and because radio-logic imaging techniques continue to refine the accuracy of urologie diagnoses, the role of laparoscopy in urologie practice has contracted somewhat in the past few years.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    David C. Brooks MD (Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery) (Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery)

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Loughlin, K.R., O’Leary, M.P. (1998). Laparoscopy for Urologic Conditions. In: Brooks, D.C. (eds) Current Review of Minimally Invasive Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1692-6_16

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