Frequency of renal disease in Japan: An analysis of 2,404 renal biopsies at a single center

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Moriyama, Takahito ^a   Suzuki, Keiko ^a   Sugiura, Hidekazu ^a   Itabashi, Mitsuyo ^a   Tsukada, Misao ^a   Takei, Takashi ^a   Koike, Minako ^a   Uchida, Keiko ^a   Horita, Shigeru ^a   Taneda, Sekiko ^a   Honda, Kazuho ^a   Nitta, Kosaku ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Japanese; Renal diseases

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAPAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; PREGNANCY TOXEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951037926     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313040     Document Type: Article

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