Thigh grafts: A preferable alternative to catheters when upper extremity access sites are exhausted

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 469-471

  Abreo, Kenneth D ^a   Ram, Sunanda J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; THIGH;

ARM; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; THIGH;

EID: 70350009701     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2009.00613.x     Document Type: Review

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