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Do patients who are aged 70 years or over benefit from deceased donor renal transplantation?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology volume 3, pages 484–485 (2007)Cite this article

boxed-textRao PS et al. (2007) Renal transplantation in elderly patients older than 70 years of age: results from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Transplantation 83: 1069–1074

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  1. Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kidney Center, Department of Surgery, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan teraoka@kc.twmu.ac.jp

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  1. S Teraoka is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, and in the Division of Organ Replacement, Kidney Center, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, at Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.,

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