Clinical and morphological aspects of thin glomerular basement membrane disease

Polish Journal of Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-42

  Zurawski, Jakub ^a   Salwa Zurawska, Wieslawa ^a   Woźniak, Aldona ^a   Bortkiewicz, Elzbieta ^a   Maciejewski, Janusz ^a   Idasiak Piechocka, Ilona ^a   Urbański, Bartosz ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILD; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEINURIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MESANGIAL CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 69849109607     PISSN: 12339687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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