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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Letter to the Editor

Concomitant amyloidosis, renal papillary carcinoma and ipsilateral pelvicalyceal urothelial carcinoma in a patient with familial Mediterranean fever

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Pages 54-59 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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