Prevalence of Pruritus in a Single Cohort of Long-term Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Acta Derm Venereol

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hosptial, DE-70376 Stuttgart, Germany.

Published: February 2020

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