Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours

Renal transplantation confers improvement in quality of life and survival when compared to patients on dialysis. There is a universal shortage of organs, and efforts have been made to overcome this shortage by exploring new sources. One such area is the use of kidneys containing small tumours after...

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Autores principales: Khurram, Muhammad Arslan, Sanni, Aliu Oladipupo, Rix, David, Talbot, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331315
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/529080
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author Khurram, Muhammad Arslan
Sanni, Aliu Oladipupo
Rix, David
Talbot, David
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description Renal transplantation confers improvement in quality of life and survival when compared to patients on dialysis. There is a universal shortage of organs, and efforts have been made to overcome this shortage by exploring new sources. One such area is the use of kidneys containing small tumours after resection of the neoplasm. This paper looks at the current evidence in the literature and reviews the feasibility of utilizing such a source.
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spelling pubmed-30349272011-02-17 Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours Khurram, Muhammad Arslan Sanni, Aliu Oladipupo Rix, David Talbot, David Int J Nephrol Review Article Renal transplantation confers improvement in quality of life and survival when compared to patients on dialysis. There is a universal shortage of organs, and efforts have been made to overcome this shortage by exploring new sources. One such area is the use of kidneys containing small tumours after resection of the neoplasm. This paper looks at the current evidence in the literature and reviews the feasibility of utilizing such a source. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3034927/ /pubmed/21331315 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/529080 Text en Copyright © 2010 Muhammad Arslan Khurram et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khurram, Muhammad Arslan
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Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
title Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
title_full Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
title_fullStr Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
title_full_unstemmed Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
title_short Renal Transplantation with Kidneys Affected by Tumours
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331315
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/529080
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