Global trends in the rates of living kidney donation

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1088-1098

  Horvat, Lucy Diane ^a   Shariff, Salimah Z ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Living donors; Organ donation; Trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ICELAND; IRAN; JAPAN; JORDAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349167638     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.20     Document Type: Article

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