The Whitaker test, a useful tool in renal grafts?

Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-52

  Sperling, Herbert ^a   Becker, Gerold ^a   Heemann, Uwe ^a   Lümmen, Gerd ^a   Philipp, Thomas ^a   Rübben, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URODYNAMICS; UROGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CREATININE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034094174     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)00541-0     Document Type: Article

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