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Milking the System: Dietary Therapy of Post-nephrectomy Chylous Ascites

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    Anas Gremida, Christopher Atkinson, Archana Kaza & Denis McCarthy

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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Gremida, A., Atkinson, C., Lopez-Portillo, G. et al. Milking the System: Dietary Therapy of Post-nephrectomy Chylous Ascites. Dig Dis Sci 64, 1133–1137 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-019-05611-9

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