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Gross hematuria, edema, and hypocomplementemia in a 9-year-old boy: Answers

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    Juanjuan Ding, Panli Liao, Gaohong Zhu, Chang Qi & Xiaowen Wang

  2. Department of Pediatrics Pathology, Hubei, China

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Ding, J., Liao, P., Zhu, G. et al. Gross hematuria, edema, and hypocomplementemia in a 9-year-old boy: Answers. Pediatr Nephrol 37, 2349–2353 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-022-05539-9

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