Crucial role of renal biopsy in the management of ANCA-associated renal vasciditis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 726-728

  Ferrario, F ^a   Rastaldi, M P ^a   D'Amico, G ^a  

^a SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULITIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0030007833     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027374     Document Type: Article

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