Kidney donors don't regret

Transplantation

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2067-2071

  Fehrman Ekholm, Ingela ^a   Brink, Bo ^a   Ericsson, Christina ^a   Elinder, Carl Gustaf ^a   Dunér, Fredrik ^a   Lundgren, Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SWEDEN;

EID: 0034720554     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200005270-00016     Document Type: Article

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