Changes in the Eurotransplant kidney allocation program for pediatric patients;Änderungen der Allokation in der pädiatrischen Nierentransplantation bei Eurotransplant

Transplantationsmedizin: Organ der Deutschen Transplantationsgesellschaft

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-57

  Tönshoff, Burkhard ^a   de Boer, Jan ^b   Rahme, Axel ^b   Heemann, Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Eurotransplant; Organ allocation; Pediatric bonus; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054877857     PISSN: 09469648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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