Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: Unremitting proteinuria of long duration as a possible etiology?

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-163

  Tanaka, Hiroshi ^c   Waga, Shinobu ^c   Nakahata, Tohru ^a   Onodera, Norio ^a   Monma, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a Iwate Prefectural Kitakami Hospital   (Japan)

^b Morioka Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINURIA; TIME;

BIOPSY; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEINURIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034303188     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.192.157     Document Type: Article

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