Nephrology Forum

Kidney International (1981) 20, 799–809; doi:10.1038/ki.1981.213

Renal tubular acidosis in childhood

Presentation of the Forum is made possible by grants from Smith Kline & French Laboratories, CIBA Pharmaceutical Company, GEIGY Pharmaceuticals, and Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd.

Principal discussant: Elisabeth McSherry1

1University of California, San Francisco, California

Correspondence: Dr Elisabeth McSherry, University of California at San Francisco, 1203 M, San Francisco, California 94143, USA

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