Osmotic nephrosis with mannitol: review article

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Ali Zohair Nomani1, Zahid Nabi, Humayun Rashid

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Renal Failure
|June 19, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Acute renal failure/injurymannitolmannitol-induced acute renal failuremannitol-induced osmotic nephrosisosmotic nephrosis

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