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Nephrectomy for end-stage polycystic kidney disease can be performed safely at the time of transplantation

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boxed-textFuller TF et al. (2005) End stage polycystic kidney disease: indications and timing of native nephrectomy relative to kidney transplantation. J Urol 174: 2284–2288

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