Kidney transplantation among identical twins: Therapeutic dilemmas

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dziewanowski, Krzysztof ^a   Drozd, Radoslaw ^a   Chojnowska, Anna ^a   Dziewanowska rogalska, Małgorzata ^a   Parczewski, Milosz ^b  

^a Regional Hospital   (Poland)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWIN CONCORDANCE; URETHRA STENOSIS; URINE RETENTION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 84860392521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3752     Document Type: Article

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