Is it practical to screen dialysis patients for vascular calcification?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-254

  McIntyre, Christopher W ^a,b  

^a DERBY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcification; EBCT; Screening

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 31544468361     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi227     Document Type: Editorial

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