Development of bilateral gluteal pyomyositis during treatment of acute pyelonephritis in a patient with diabetes
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Copyright © 2015 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1226-3303 eISSN 2005-6648 http://www.kjim.org Korean J Intern Med 2015;30:256-258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2015.30.2.256
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دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015