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Laparoscopy-assisted autotransplantation in child with renovascular hypertension
Abbas Basiri1, Heshmatollah Soufi Majidpour, Farhat Farrokhi
1Urology/Nephrology Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. basiri@unrc.ir
Journal of Endourology
|October 29, 2005
Abstract:
A 7-year-old boy with hypertension secondary to intimal hyperplasia of the left renal artery was normotensive after laparoscopic autotransplantation following failed angioplasty. This appears to be the first such case reported.
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