Balkan endemic nephropathy: A need for novel aetiological approaches

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 457-463

  Stefanovic V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^b Inst Nephrology and Haemodialysis   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BLADDER TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 3Q; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PELVIS TUMOR; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URETER TUMOR; URINARY TRACT TUMOR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0031841595     PISSN: 00335622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/91.7.457     Document Type: Review

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