Reply to Focosi and Boggi

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Süsal, Caner ^a   Opelz, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN; LUMINEX SINGLE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; CADAVER DONOR; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80051778453     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318227c0f4     Document Type: Letter

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