Kidney transplantation: Racial or socioeconomic disparities?

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 756-758

  Curtis, J J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0032860111     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-6386(99)70404-X     Document Type: Editorial

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