Comparison of Radiocephalic Fistulas Placed in the Proximal Forearm and in the Wrist

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-357

  Bhalodia, Rajeshkumar ^a   Allon, Michael ^a   Hawxby, Alan M ^b   Maya, Ivan D ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION; WRIST;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WRIST;

EID: 79959350323     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2010.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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