Strategies to advance living kidney donation: A single center's experience

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-75

  Kranenburg, Leonieke ^a   Zuidema, Willij ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a   Hilhorst, Medard ^a   Ijzermans, Jan ^a   Passchier, Jan ^a   Busschbach, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NETHERLANDS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 66149149843     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.19.1.m502435859555966     Document Type: Article

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