Upper extremity central venous obstruction in hemodialysis patients: Treatment with Wallstents

Radiology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 343-348

  Vesely, Thomas M ^a   Hovsepian, David M ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a   Coyne, Daniel W ^b   Shenoy, Surendra ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis, shunts; Veins, grafts and prostheses; Veins, innominate; Veins, stenosis or obstruction; Veins, subclavian

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CENTRAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0030851346     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.204.2.9240518     Document Type: Article

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