Bilateral Emphysematous Pyelonephritis
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1011-8934 eISSN 1598-6357 Bilateral Emphysematous Pyelonephritis https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1736 • J Korean Med Sci 2017; 32: 1736-1737
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