"Watermelon stomach" in patients on chronic hemodialysis

Renal Failure

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 643-646

  Pljesa, Steva ^a,b   Golubovic, Gradimir ^a   Tomasevic, Ratko ^a   Markovic, Rodoljub ^a   Perunicic, Gordana ^a  

^a University Hospital Zemun   (Serbia)

^b University Hospital Zemun

Author keywords

Anemia; Blood loss; Hemodialysis; Watermelon stomach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYLORUS; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA;

EID: 24044491563     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220500200890     Document Type: Article

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