Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in a Patient with Large Bilateral Asymptomatic Adrenal Myelolipomas

Renal Failure

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1051-1056

  Alexopoulos, Efstathios ^a   Kirmizis, Dimitrios ^a   Visvardis, Georgios ^a   Grollios, Georgios ^a   Leontsini, Maria ^a   Memmos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adrenal myelolipomas; Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MYELOLIPOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOLIPOMA; RENAL DIALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345257100     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JDI-120026041     Document Type: Article

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