Lithium and renal tumors: a critical comment to the report by Zaidan et al.
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Terumasa Hayashi, Hiromi Rakugi, Kunitoshi Iseki, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara and Yoshitaka Isaka , the Committee of Renal Data Registry of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Committee of Renal Data Registry, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, Tokyo, Japan and Department of Kidney Disease and Hypertension, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan Correspondence: Yoshitaka Isaka, Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
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دوره 86 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014