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Uraemic frost: a clinical manifestation of severe uraemia
  1. Benjamin Madeux1,
  2. Bertrand Pons1,
  3. Khalid Elkoun1,
  4. Guillaume Thiery1,2
  1. 1Service de réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
  2. 2Faculté de Médecine, Université des Antilles, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
  1. Correspondence to Professor Guillaume Thiery, Service de réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe 97157, France; guillaume.thiery{at}chu-guadeloupe.fr

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133932

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    • Contributors All authors wrote the paper and were in charge of the patient and participated to the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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