Limited surgical interventions in children with posterior urethral valves can lead to better outcomes following renal transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 400-405

  Bartsch, Leah ^a,b   Sarwal, Minnie ^a   Orlandi, Pamela ^a   Yorgin, Peter D ^a   Salvatierra Jr , Oscar ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Children; Creatinine clearance; End stage renal disease; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Urologic surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYSTOSTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA VALVE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 0036802996     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2002.02025.x     Document Type: Article

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