Is It Ethical to Test Apparently "Healthy" Children for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and Risk Medicalizing Thousands?

Overview

Journal Front Pediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2018 Feb 7

PMID 29404310

Citations 2

Authors

Tess Harris

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