Preemptive kidney transplantation: Ethical issues

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-177

  Petrini, Carlo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Organ transplantation; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 69249115719     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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