Renal biopsies in acute kidney injury: Who are we missing?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 647-648

  Stillman, Isaac E ^a   Lima, Emerson Q ^b   Burdmann, Emmanuel A ^b,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL DE BASE   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; SPAIN; TIME; VASCULITIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 44649139345     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01110308     Document Type: Editorial

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