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Resistive index: an ideal test for renovascular disease or ischemic nephropathy?

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Radermacher, J. Resistive index: an ideal test for renovascular disease or ischemic nephropathy?. Nat Rev Nephrol 2, 232–233 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0177

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