The case milky ascites is not always chylous

Kidney International

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-78

  Olde Loohuis, K M ^a   Jahnen Dechent, W ^b   Van Dorp, W ^a  

^a Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETUIN A; HYDROXYAPATITE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PLASMA PROTEIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CALCIFICATION; CALCIFYING SCLEROSING PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CHYLOUS ASCITES; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MILKY ASCITES; PARACENTESIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING PERITONITIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 72949096577     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.407     Document Type: Article

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