Letter to the editor: The incidence of fatal kidney biopsy

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-258

  Huang, C C ^a   Kuo, C C ^b   Chen, Y M ^b  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EDEMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UREMIA; VENTILATOR;

EID: 80052531249     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp76256     Document Type: Letter

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