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Images in emergency medicine
Giant hydronephrosis
  1. Chuan-Tsai Lai1,
  2. Han-Hsiang Chen1,2,3,
  3. Chih-Jen Wu1,3,4,
  4. Chen-Wang Chang5
  1. 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2National Taipei College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 3Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan
  4. 4Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  5. 5Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chen-Wang Chang, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, No. 92, Sec. 2, Zhongshan N. Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City 10449, Taiwan (ROC); jcy5898{at}yahoo.com.tw
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2009.080846

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