Acute care surgery after renal transplantation

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 882-886

  Benjamin, Elizabeth R ^a   Jim, Jeffrey ^a   Kim, Thomas J ^a   Meals, Clifton ^a   Gritsch, H Albin ^a   Tillou, Areti ^a   Cryer, H Gill ^a   Hiatt, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLON DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HERNIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450285472     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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