End Stage Renal Disease—A Nephrologist’s Perspective of Two Different Circumstances as Typified by Kidney Transplantation Experience in a Nigerian Hospital Versus a Large US Medical School

Macaulay Amechi Chukwukadibia Onuigbo

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Volumen: 5 Número: 3 Parte: Septemb (2017)

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Law
Economy
Medicine / Sub specialties

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Healthcare
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
Notulae Scientia Biologicae

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare5030031

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