Value of scintigraphy in chronic peritoneal dialysis patients

Kidney International

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1111-1119

  Juergensen, Peter H ^a   Rizvi, Hasan ^a   Caride, Vicente J ^a   Kliger, Alan S ^a   Finkelstein, Fredric O ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall; Loculation; Omentum; Pleural fluid; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CODING; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 0032988485     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.0550031111.x     Document Type: Article

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