Renal biopsy: Why and when

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 178-190

  Reisman, Lewis ^a   Dikman, Steven ^a   Churg, Jacob ^a   Kupfer, Sherman ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 0030144598     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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