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Molecular pathology of nephrotic syndrome in childhood: a contemporary approach to diagnosis.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Liapis Helen
Abstract excerpt
Molecular and genetic studies in the last 2 decades have shed new light on the understanding of congenital and infantile nephrotic syndrome (NS). Glomerular pathology may appear as minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, or diffuse mesangial sclerosis, glomerular diseases now recognized as podocyte injuries and in part caused by altered podocyte genes. Even though genetic mutations are not...
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