Successful living related simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant between identical twins

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 915-918

  Benedetti, Enrico ^a,b   Dunn, Ty ^a   Massad, Malek G ^a   Raofi, Vandad ^a   Bartholomew, Amelia ^a   Gruessner, Rainer W G ^c   Brecklin, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CSB (M/C 958)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULITIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS;

EID: 0033608707     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199903270-00021     Document Type: Article

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