Do dialysis patients need screening colonoscopies and mammograms?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 364-365

  Holley, Jean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOTE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MAMMOGRAPHY; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 80051803749     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.00891.x     Document Type: Note

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