Unilateral primary pulmonary agenesis and hypoplasia in monozygotic twins
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CASE REPORT The patient was a 26 year old man who presented with typical symptoms of endstage renal failure in December, 1971. Prior to this he had always been well, though his mother remembered that he had a "chill on the kidneys" at the age of 6 years. The family history was negative for renal disease. He had a twin brother. On examination he was clinically anaemic and uraemric. Blood pressur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Saudi Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0256-4947,0975-4466
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2012.90