European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 64-69 , January 2006

Preoperative Radiological Assessment for Vascular Access

  • P.W.G. Brown

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Dr P.W.G. Brown, BSc, FRCS, FRCR, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.

,Accepted 5 October 2005.

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 Update on Renal Access and Transplantation—one of a series of educational articles edited by Mr Christopher Gibbons, Swansea, UK.

PII: S1078-5884(05)00598-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2005.10.002

European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 64-69 , January 2006

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