History of dialysis in Africa

Dialysis: History, Development and Promise

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 599-610

  Barsoum, Rashad S ^a  

^a Cairo Kidney Center   (Egypt)

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EID: 84924168897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814289764_0060     Document Type: Chapter

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