Delayed complications following Tenckhoff catheter removal

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1550-1552

  Elkabir, Jeremy J ^a   Riaz, Ali A ^a   Agarwal, Sanjiv K ^a   Williams, Gordon ^a   Elkabir, Jeremy ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catheter; Complications; Dialysis; Surgery; Tenckhoff

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CUFF; DISSECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033018449     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.6.1550     Document Type: Article

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