Editorial: Pre-emptive kidney transplantation - Just do it!!

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 561-564

  Bock, Margret E ^a   Cohn, Richard A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; SURVIVAL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954463101     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01347.x     Document Type: Editorial

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