Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome following a scorpion sting
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Haemolytic uraemic syndrome following acute pancreatitis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.10.2639