Renal Pathology of POEMS Syndrome
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229 Received May 7, 2013; revised and accepted October 24, 2013. Published online November 16, 2013; doi: 10.1620/tjem.231.229. Correspondence: Yasuhiro Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pathology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] A Patient with POEMS Syndrome: The Pathology of Glomerular Microangiopathy
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