Inability of community-based laboratories to identify pathological casts in urine samples

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1201-1204

  Rasoulpour, Majid ^a   Banco, Leonard ^b   Laut, Jeffrey M ^b   Burke, Georgine S ^b  

^a Farmington   (United States)

^b Connecticut Children's Med Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPORT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0029955091     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1996.02170360091015     Document Type: Article

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