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Pediatric en bloc kidney transplants: excellent long-term function compared with adult living donor kidneys

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boxed-textSureshkumar KK et al. (2006) Superiority of pediatric en bloc renal allografts over living donor kidneys: a long-term functional study. Transplantation 82: 348–353

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The synopsis was written by Edward Alfrey, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA.

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Alfrey, E., Pagano, C. Pediatric en bloc kidney transplants: excellent long-term function compared with adult living donor kidneys. Nat Rev Nephrol 3, 76–77 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0382

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