Renal and skin involvement in a patient with complete Kearns-Sayre syndrome
โ Scribed by Mori, Kazuhiro ;Narahara, Kouji ;Ninomiya, Shinsuke ;Goto, Yu-ichi ;Nonaka, Ikuya
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 715 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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