The nephrotic syndrome in the Democratic Republic of Congo [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1085-1086

  Pakasa, Nestor M ^a   Sumaili, Ernest K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b Cliniques Universitaires   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

CONGO; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME;

EID: 33644823235     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc052696     Document Type: Letter

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