Transplantation: Kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant for the uremic diabetic?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 554-556

  Sutherland, David E R ^a   Gruessner, Angelika C ^b   Radosevich, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREMIA;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UREMIA;

EID: 70349612703     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2009.149     Document Type: Short Survey

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