Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 434-437 , August 2007

The management of acute renal failure

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PII: S1357-3039(07)00151-X

doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.05.015

Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 434-437 , August 2007

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