Prevalence and Correlates of Metabolic Acidosis among Patients with Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.09790913