Dialysis catheter 'fibrin-sheath stripping': A cautionary tale!

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1048-1050

  Winn, M P ^a   McDermott, V G ^b   Schwab, S J ^a   Conlon, P J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; DIALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FIBRIN; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0030927666     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.5.1048     Document Type: Article

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