The right kidney for the right recipient: The status of deceased donor kidney allocation reform

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 248-252

  Stegall, Mark D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955157744     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2010.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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