Dialysis: The stent graft for stenosis: Let's appraise before we praise

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 503-504

  Salman, Loay ^a   Asif, Arif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STENOSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN GRAFT;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; STENTS; VEINS;

EID: 77956259862     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.80     Document Type: Short Survey

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