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Are the Banff 97 criteria for renal allograft biopsy specimen adequacy achievable in children?

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boxed-textDurkan AM et al. (2006) Renal transplant biopsy specimen adequacy in a paediatric population. Pediatr Nephrol 21: 265–269

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