Thoughts about judging dialysis treatmentmathematics and measurements, mirrors in the mind

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 242-262

  Lowrie, Edmund G ^a,b  

^a National Medical Care Inc   (United States)

^b W R GRACE AND CO CONN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UREA;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALNUTRITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RENAL DIALYSIS; UREA;

EID: 0029990015     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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