Urine alpha-1-microglobulin reliability in the diagnosis of pyelonephritis: a systematic review
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*Corresponding author: Fahime Noferesti. Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 09155193677 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Urine alpha-1-microglobulin reliability in the diagnosis of pyelonephritis: a systematic review
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