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Images in emergency medicine
Spontaneous renal artery dissection
  1. M-J Hsieh1,
  2. Y-H Lin2,
  3. K-L Liu3,
  4. C-C Fang1,4,
  5. T-J Tsai4
  1. 1Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 3Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  4. 4Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Cheng-Chung Fang, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan; conrad{at}ntu.edu.tw
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2009.074732

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    Footnotes

    • Funding This work was supported by The Ta-Tung Kidney Foundation and Mrs. Hsiu-Chin Lee Kidney Research Fund.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed

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