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Ramachandran, R., Doddi, P., Nandakrishna, B. et al. Combination of pulse cyclophosphamide and steroids in crescentic IgA nephropathy. Int Urol Nephrol 47, 1917–1918 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-015-1076-z
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