Transposed Arteriovenous Fistulae: Do the Results Justify the Effort?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 148-157

  Farber, Alik ^a   Woo, Karen ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548609798     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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