Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 496-502 , April 2010

Effectiveness of Stent-graft Placement for Salvage of Dysfunctional Arteriovenous Hemodialysis Fistulas

Received 31 March 2009 ,Revised 26 November 2009 ,Accepted 30 December 2009.

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 None of the authors have identified a conflict of interest.

 From the SIR 2009 Annual Meeting

PII: S1051-0443(09)01672-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.12.395

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 496-502 , April 2010

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