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Role of renal biopsy in end stage renal failure.
- Source :
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Urology [Urology] 1978 Dec; Vol. 12 (6), pp. 631-4. - Publication Year :
- 1978
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Abstract
- The role of renal biopsy in 46 patients with end stage renal failure was assessed. Renal tissue was obtained by open renal biopsy in 24 patients, by needle biopsy in 5, and at bilateral nephrectomy in 17. In 4 patients the renal biopsy specimens showed advanced changes that could only be diagnosed as "end stage kidney". In 42 patients (91 per cent), a precise renal diagnosis was made. In 20 patients (43 per cent) the prebiopsy clinical impression differed from the histologic diagnosis. In the 29 patients undergoing renal biopsy, minor postoperative morbidity occurred in 5. We conclude that a renal biopsy in patients with end stage renal failure will result in a change in clinical diagnosis in a significant number of patients and can be performed with low morbidity.
- Subjects :
- Biopsy, Needle
Chronic Disease
Diagnostic Errors
Glomerulonephritis diagnosis
Glomerulonephritis pathology
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic diagnosis
Nephrectomy
Nephrosclerosis diagnosis
Nephrosclerosis pathology
Postoperative Complications epidemiology
Pyelonephritis diagnosis
Pyelonephritis pathology
Biopsy
Kidney Failure, Chronic pathology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0090-4295
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Urology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 741541
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(78)90421-1