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Nephrotic syndrome and acute tubular injury after bee stings in a beekeeper: expanding the electron microscopic findings of bee venom-induced renal injury

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Capa, Fatih, 34093, Istanbul, Turkey

    Seda Safak, Ahmet Burak Dirim, Nurane Garayeva, Erol Demir, Ayse Serra Artan, Ozgur Akin Oto, Savas Ozturk, Halil Yazici & Aydin Turkmen

  2. Department of Histology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Seyhun Solakoglu

  3. Department of Pathology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Yasemin Ozluk & Isin Kilicaslan

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Safak, S., Dirim, A.B., Solakoglu, S. et al. Nephrotic syndrome and acute tubular injury after bee stings in a beekeeper: expanding the electron microscopic findings of bee venom-induced renal injury. Int Urol Nephrol 55, 2131–2132 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-023-03537-w

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