Unusual Vascular Access for Hemodialysis: Transposed Venae Comitante of the Brachial Artery

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 560-563

  Elwakeel, Hossam A ^a   Saad, Ehab M ^a   Elkiran, Yasser M ^a   Awad, Ibrahim ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 34548356870     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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