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In Vivo, Percutaneous, Needle Based, Optical Coherence Tomography of Renal Masses
Published on: March 30, 2015
Incidental discovery of a renal cell carcinoma on native kidney biopsy
C John Sperati1, Nada Alachkar, Ronald Rodriguez
1Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. jsperati@jhmi.edu
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