Issues of Renal Replacement Therapy in Elders Living Low-Income African Countries
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DOI: 10.5812/numonthly.7077 Copyright © 2012 Kowsar Corp. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nephro-Urol Mon. 2012;4(4):648-649. DOI: 10.5812/numonthly.7077
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