Interesting case from Argentina: Kidney transplant recipient with skin lesions-A Latin American perspective
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Murine Full-thickness Skin Transplantation
Published on: January 2, 2017
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Marcelo Víctor Radisic1, Guilherme Santoro Lopes2, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno3
1Departamento de Infectología, Instituto de Trasplante y Alta Complejidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
This is a case of a kidney transplant recipient who presented with skin lesions, low-grade fevers, and pancytopenia 2 months after his transplant.
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