Renal cholesterol embolism: Analysis of two spontaneous autopsy cases

Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-96

  Ehara, Takashi ^a   Yazawa, Masanobu ^b   Konishi, Kounosuke ^c   Hora, Kazuhiko ^a   Shigematsu, Hidekazu ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholesterol embolism; Inflammatory cell; Kidney; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLISM; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL CHOLESTEROL EMBOLISM; SEPSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MAST CELLS; NEPHRITIS;

EID: 14844286162     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2005.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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