Variable Symptomatology in Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
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Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.
it may be speculated that they accounted for the repeated episodes of sudden pain and subsequent fever and hyperbilirubinaemia for which no other cause could be found. The pathogenesis ofthe infarcts is quite unknown. Our patient died a relatively sudden cardiopulmonary death almost 2 years after HMR was diagnosed. She had proven coronary artery disease but undoubtedly the chronic anaemia contr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688307601209