Atlas of Diseases of the Kidney
Subtitle: Systemic Diseases and the Kidney
Contributors: Saulo Klahr (Editor); Robert W. Schrier (Editor)
Publisher: Current Medicine
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5
ISBN-13: 9780632044375
First sentence: The maintenance of the tonicity of body fluids within a very narrow physiologic range is made possible by homeostatic mechanisms that control the intake and excretion of water.