Tubulointerstitial damage as the major pathological lesion in endemic chronic kidney disease among farmers in North Central Province of Sri Lanka

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-221

  Nanayakkara, Shanika ^a   Komiya, Toshiyuki ^b   Ratnatunga, Neelakanthi ^c   Senevirathna, S T M L D ^a   Harada, Kouji H ^a   Hitomi, Toshiaki ^a   Gobe, Glenda ^d   Muso, Eri ^b   Abeysekera, Tilak ^e   Koizumi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Teaching Hospital Kandy   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Chronic kidney disease; Farmers; Histopathology; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTERY HYALINOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE OF UNCERTAIN ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIBROUS INTIMAL THICKENING; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULAR COLLAPSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; SCORING SYSTEM; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBULAR ATROPHY; TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DAMAGE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84862878884     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-011-0243-9     Document Type: Article

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