An easy and safe model of kidney transplantation in rats

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 668-672

  Karatzas, Theodore ^a   Santiago, Sergio ^b   Xanthos, Theodoros ^a   De Faria, Wervinston ^b   Gandia, Carlos ^b   Kostakis, Alkiviades ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL; URETER REIMPLANTATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADIPOCYTES; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; URETER; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 36448967901     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20429     Document Type: Article

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