Impact of surgeon selection on access placement and survival following preoperative mapping in the "fistula first" era

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-345

  Choi, Kenneth L ^a   Salman, Loay ^a   Krishnamurthy, Gururaj ^a   Mercado, Carlos ^a   Merrill, Donna ^a   Thomas, Ian ^a   Artikov, Shukrat ^a   Contreras, Gabriel ^a   Khan, Rao Ali Hashim ^a   Warda, Ali ^a   Asif, Arif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48049088786     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2008.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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