Ultrasound imaging findings of femoral veins in patients with renal failure and its impact on vascular access

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1864-1867

  Seyahi, Nurhan ^a,b   Kahveci, Arzu ^a   Altiparmak, Mehmet R ^a   Serdengecti, Kamil ^a   Erek, Ekrem ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Femoral artery; Femoral vein; Haemodialysis; Vascular access

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 24044436549     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh942     Document Type: Article

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