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Assessment of renal function in the young. Special considerations
1University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
Infants are born in a state of renal insufficiency and have varying degrees of maturity of tubular processes. This is even more striking in premature infants. This article presents a review of glomerular and tubular function assessment with particular attention to factors that impact these developmental and maturational factors.