Bedside stereomicroscopy of renal biopsies may lead to a rapid diagnosis of Fabry's disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3202-3203

  Svarstad, Einar ^a,b   Iversen, Bjarne M ^a   Bostad, Leif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fabry's disease; Renal biopsy; Stereomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FABRY DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMICROSCOPY;

ADULT; FABRY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICROSCOPY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SPHINGOLIPIDS;

EID: 11244321663     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh395     Document Type: Note

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