Erdheim-Chester disease: A rare cause of renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1776-1777

  Verdalles, Ursula ^a   Goicoechea, Marian ^a   de Vinuesa, Soledad García ^a   Mosse, Alexia ^a   Luño, Jose ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Erdheim Chester disease; Histiocytosis; Renal failure; Urinary tract obstruction

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; THYROID MASS; THYROIDECTOMY; URINE VOLUME; VOMITING;

ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS;

EID: 34447552703     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm115     Document Type: Article

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