The role of flow cytometric ANCA detection in screening for acute pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 365-370

  Kitching, A Richard ^a,b   Hutchinson, Paul ^a,b   Atkins, Robert C ^b   Holdsworth, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ANCA; ANCA associated glomerulonephritis; Crescentic glomerulonephritis; Diagnosis; Flow cytometry

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1042292027     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg553     Document Type: Article

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