Diffuse thin glomerular basement membrane in association with idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 137-143

  Toth T ^a   Naito, I ^b   Takebayashi, S ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shigei Medical Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinicopathological analysis; Idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis; Immunohistochemistry; Thin glomerular basement membrane

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

ADULT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0031719831     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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