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Factors associated with renal cortical echogenicity

Tapio Vehmas1, Ari Kaukiainen

  • 1Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. tapio.vehmas@ttl.fi

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
|August 1, 2006
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