Nephrectomy and solitary kidney biopsy in a patient with Munchausen's syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 890-892

  Schmidt, F ^a   Strutz, F ^a   Quellhorst, E ^b   Muller G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Nephrologic Center Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0029932568     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027424     Document Type: Article

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