Typing of amyloidosis in renal biopsies: Diagnostic pitfalls

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 917-922

  Satoskar, Anjali A ^a   Burdge, Kelly ^a   Cowden, Daniel J ^a   Nadasdy, Gyongyi M ^a   Hebert, Lee A ^a   Nadasdy, Tibor ^a,b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID A PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; PEROXIDASE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 34250155666     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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