Wet gangrene in hemodialysis patients with calciphylaxisis is associated with a poor prognosis

Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 565-570

  Davis, Catharina A ^a   James Valentine, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calciphylaxis; End stage renal disease; Foot gangrene

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT ULCER; FOREFOOT; GANGRENE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CALCIPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; FOOT; GANGRENE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 0034810565     PISSN: 09672109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-2109(01)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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