Thin glomerular basement membrane nephropathy: Incidence in 3471 consecutive renal biopsies examined by electron microscopy

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 699-706

  Haas, Mark ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPORT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENDER; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THIN GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE NEPHROPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MARYLAND; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33646688707     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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