A spectrum of clinicopathological features of nephropathy associated with POEMS syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2370-2378

  Nakamoto, Yasushi ^a,c   Imai, Hirokazu ^b   Yasuda, Tadashi ^b   Wakui, Hideki ^b   Miura, Akira B ^b  

^a Kichijoji Asahi Hospital   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Kichijoji Asahi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elevated BUN creatinine ratio; Endarteritis like lesion of small artery; Endothelial mesangial cell swelling; Glomerular enlargement; Mesangiolysis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; INTERLEUKIN 6; UREA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POEMS SYNDROME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032850737     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.10.2370     Document Type: Article

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