High on the differential

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 1377-1381

  Lurie, Jon D ^a,b   Sox, Harold C ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; EDEMA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; RADIAL ARTERY;

ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDEMA; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031556753     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199711063371908     Document Type: Article

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