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The renal biopsy in the genomic era.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Aug 2013
Liapis Helen, Gaut Joseph P
Abstract excerpt
Renal biopsy was introduced in the 1950s. By 1980 the pathologic diagnostic criteria for the majority of medical kidney diseases known today, including pediatric diseases, were established using light, electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. However, it has become clear that there are limitations in the morphologic evaluation, mainly because a given pattern of injury can be caused by different aetiologies...
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