The Catheter-Challenged Patient and the Need to Recognize the Recurrently Dysfunctional Tunneled Dialysis Catheter

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 648-652

  Rasmussen, Randall L ^a  

^a Lifeline Vascular Access   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 78650344196     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2010.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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