How a skilful and motivated urinary sediment examination can save the kidneys

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1778-1781

  Verdesca, Simona ^a   Brambilla, Claudia ^b   Garigali, Giuseppe ^a   Croci, Maria Daniela ^a   Messa, Piergiorgio ^a   Fogazzi, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERYTHROCYTE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; LOW BACK PAIN; MOTIVATION; NEPHROLOGIST; OUTPATIENT; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; URINE; UROTHELIUM;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULES; URINALYSIS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 34447568525     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm142     Document Type: Article

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