The femoral artery-femoral vein polytetrafluoroethylene graft: A 14-year retrospective study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1215-1220

  Korzets, Asher ^a   Ori, Yaacov ^a   Baytner, Shlomo ^a,b   Zevin, Dina ^a   Chagnac, Avry ^a   Weinstein, Talia ^a   Herman, Michal ^a   Agmon, Morris ^a,b   Gafter, Uzi ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031979937     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.5.1215     Document Type: Article

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