Patient survival on dialysis in Korea: a different story?
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Dialysis Modality and Survival in Korea
271 Received February 1, 2012; revised and accepted March 14, 2013. Published online April 19, 2013; doi: 10.1620/tjem.229.271. *These authors have contributed equally to this work. Correspondenece: Sejoong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi-ro, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Republic of Korea e-mail: [email protected] He...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Kidney International
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0085-2538
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2014.194