Partial therapeutic response to Rituximab for the treatment of chronic alloantibody mediated rejection of kidney allografts.

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Published in Transpl Immunol on August 30, 2012

Authors

R Neal Smith1, Fahim Malik, Nelson Goes, Alton B Farris, Emmanuel Zorn, Susan Saidman, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, Sonika Puri, Waichi Wong

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. rnsmith@partners.org

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