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Estimation of Nephron Number in Whole Kidney using the Acid Maceration Method
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Estimation of Nephron Number in Whole Kidney using the Acid Maceration Method

Published on: May 22, 2019

Computing, mathematics, and the nephrologist

M S Knapp

    Kidney International
    |October 1, 1983
    PubMed

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