Collagenofibrotic Glomerulopathy: Clinicopathologic Overview of a Rare Glomerular Disease

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-506

  Alchi, Bassam ^a   Nishi, Shinichi ^b   Narita, Ichiei ^a   Gejyo, Fumitake ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagenofibrotic glomerulopathy; mesangium; subendothelial space; type III collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DIURETIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ANEMIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAGENOFIBROTIC GLOMERULOPATHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

COLLAGEN TYPE III; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROCOLLAGEN; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 33947314650     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.01.020     Document Type: Review

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