Glomerular morphometry in biopsy evaluation of minimal change disease, membranous glomerulonephritis, thin basement membrane disease and Alport's syndrome

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 173-182

  Rayat, Charan Singh ^a   Joshi, Kusum ^a   Dey, Pranab ^a   Sakhuja, Vinay ^a   Minz, Ranjana Walker ^a   Datta, Usha ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Alport's syndrome; Glomerular basement membrane thickness; Glomerular morphometry; Glomerular volume fractions; Membranous glomerulonephritis; Minimal change disease; Thin basement membrane disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPORT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOANALYZER; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS, HEREDITARY; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID;

EID: 34250875020     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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