Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis With Unusual Lung Involvement.

J Clin Rheumatol

Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel Basel, Switzerland Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Published: September 2019

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