Therapy for calciphylaxis: An outcome analysis

Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 941-944

  Arch Ferrer, Jorge E ^a   Beenken, Samuel W ^a   Rue, Loring W ^a   Bland, Kirby I ^a   Diethelm, Arnold G ^a   McHenry, Christopher R ^b   McLeod, Michael K ^b   Snyder, Samuel K ^b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b Lurlene Wallace Tumor Institute ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PARATHYROID TRANSPLANTATION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346887053     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2003.07.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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