Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 9 , Pages 483-488 , September 2007

Medical management of renal transplantation

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doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.06.011

Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 9 , Pages 483-488 , September 2007

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