Nephrotic syndrome in Kimura’s disease: apropos a case of the glomerular tip lesion in an African-Caribbean male
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Department of Medicine, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Breedestraat 193 (O), Willemstad, Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles, Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Pathology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Breedestraat 193 (O), Willemstad, Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles, Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Division of Nephrology and Transplant Medicine, Department of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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تاریخ انتشار 2011