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Case Reports
. 2010 Nov 23;182(17):E800.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.091779. Epub 2010 Aug 9.

Uremic frost

Chin-Chi Kuo  1 , Jin-Bon Hung, Ching-Wei Tsai, Yung-Ming Chen
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Case Reports

Uremic frost

Chin-Chi Kuo et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Friable white crystals (“uremic frost”) on the face of a 62-year-old man with uremic encephalopathy.
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References

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    1. Pol-Rodriguez MM, Wanner M, Bhat P, et al. Uremic frost in a critically ill patient. Kidney Int. 2008;73:790. - PubMed

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