Asymmetric breast enlargement minus central venous thrombosis in a hemodialysis patient

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-33

  Youssef, Jacques J ^a,b   Brown, Clinton D ^a   Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous access; Unilateral breast engorgement

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; OXACILLIN; OXYGEN; SALBUTAMOL;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY VEIN; BREAST DISEASE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INHALER; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; STENOSIS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SWELLING; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENOUS CONGESTION; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST TENDERNESS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN CATHETER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BREAST; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; RENAL DIALYSIS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 39049108595     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2008.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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