Guidelines for glomerulonephritis: their importance in diagnosis and designing a management strategy.
There is a wide variety of disorders which affect the glomeruli, the basic filtering units of the kidney. Clinical diagnosis of specific glomerular diseases is difficult because the same glomerular disease can manifest in different ways and different glomerular disease can produce the same clinical...
| Publicado en: | Disease Management & Health Outcomes Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 213 - 225 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Oct99
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