When noncongophilic glomerular fibrils do not represent fibrillary glomerulonephritis: Nonspecific mesangial fibrils in sclerosing glomeruli

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 218-223

  Kronz, J D ^a   Neu, A M ^a   Nadasdy, T ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrillary; Fibrils; Glomerulonephritis; Mesangium

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBER; FIBRILLARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MESANGIUM; SCHOOL CHILD;

BIOPSY; CHILD; COLORING AGENTS; CONGO RED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0031686804     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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