Editorial: What do we need to do to make protocol biopsies standard of care or should we discontinue doing?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 797-801

  Birk, Patricia E ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PREVALENCE; STANDARDIZATION; BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; RISK; STANDARD; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; RISK; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 70349975825     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01229.x     Document Type: Editorial

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