The #VisualAbstract: just a pretty picture?

Cora Griffin¹, Abdullatif Aydin², Prokar Dasgupta^{2

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Affiliations

¹ GKT School of Medical Education, King's College London, London, UK.
² MRC Centre for Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, UK.

Cora Griffin et al. BJU Int. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;127(1):41-43.

doi: 10.1111/bju.15235. Epub 2020 Sep 27.

Cora Griffin¹, Abdullatif Aydin², Prokar Dasgupta^{2

3}

¹ GKT School of Medical Education, King's College London, London, UK.
² MRC Centre for Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, UK.

No abstract available

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