Renal granuloma and immunoglobulin M-complex glomerulonephritis: a case of common variable immunodeficiency?
✍ Scribed by Geneviève Benoit; Anne-Laure Lapeyraque; Hervé Sartelet; Claire Saint-Cyr; Françoise Le Deist; Élie Haddad
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-041X
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