Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome in a heroin addict
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Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.12.3197