Nephrolithiasis in a worker with cadmium exposure in the past
β Scribed by Andrea Trevisan; Claudio Gardin
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
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