Treatment of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: limited options but hope for the future

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-159

  Linfert, Douglas R ^b   Schell, Jane O ^b   Fine, Derek M ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOTHERAPY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FIBROSIS; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PHOTOTHERAPY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

EID: 40849133978     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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