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Hypercalcemia, hyperuricemia, and kidney dysfunction in a 35-month-old boy: Answers

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81370787), the Jiangsu Provincial Special Program of Medical Science (SBL2014030237), and the Key Laboratory of Children Kidney Pathology in Suzhou (SZS201511).

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  1. Department of Nephrology and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Soochow University, 303 Jingde Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, The People’s Republic of China

    Qiang Lin, Yanhong Li, Xiaomei Dai, Hanyun Tang, Ruyue Chen, Qinying Xu & Xiaozhong Li

  2. Department of Hematology, Children’s Hospital of Soochow University, 92 Zhongnan Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, The People’s Republic of China

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Lin, Q., Li, Y., Dai, X. et al. Hypercalcemia, hyperuricemia, and kidney dysfunction in a 35-month-old boy: Answers. Pediatr Nephrol 36, 73–76 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-020-04603-6

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