A clinical and pathological study on the characteristics and factors influencing the prognosis of crescentic glomerulonephritis using a cluster analysis

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 781-785

  Sasatomi, Yoshie ^a   Kiyoshi, Yasuhiro ^a   Takabeyashi, Shigeo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Crescentic glomerulonephritis; Prognosis; Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CREATININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032719786     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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