Endemic nephropathy in Croatia

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 271-277

  Čvorišćec, Dubravka ^a,c   Čeović, Stjepan ^b   Boršo, Gordana ^a   Rukavina, Ana Stavljenić ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^c KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Endemic nephropathy; Tubulointerstitial lesion; Unknown etiology

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CROATIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; URINE ACIDIFICATION;

ADULT; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; CROATIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URINE; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0344110382     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1998.046     Document Type: Review

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