Is there a bias against women in kidney transplantation practices in Saudi Arabia?

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 571-573

  Hejaili, F ^a   Juhani, A ^a   Flaiw, A ^a   Ghamdi, G ^a   Jondeby, M ^a   Eid, A ^a   Jaradat, M ^a   Shaheen, F ^b   Al Khader, A ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVING DONOR; PROGENY; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; AGE; FAMILY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PREJUDICE; SAUDI ARABIA; WOMEN;

EID: 33847730566     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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