Nephrotic syndrome associated with diffuse mesangial hypercellularity: Is it a heterogeneous disease entity?

American Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 214-220

  Joh, Kensuke ^a   Matsuyama, Norimasa ^a   Kanetsuna, Yukiko ^a   Usui, Nobuo ^a   Hattori, Motofumi ^b   Yumura, Wako ^b   Aizawa, Shigeo ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse mesangial hypercellularity; Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Glomeruli; Minimal change nephrotic syndrome; Renal disease

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEINURIA; STEROID THERAPY; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID;

EID: 0031899615     PISSN: 02508095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013339     Document Type: Article

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