This illustrated handbook provides a short, clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Essential information needed for an understanding of renal disorders is given simply and concisely. The focus is on common conditions.
This illustrated handbook provides a short, clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Essential information needed for an understanding of renal disorders is given simply and concisely. The focus is on common conditions.
This handbook provides a short, clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Essential information needed for an understanding of renal disorders is given simply and concisely. The focus is on common conditions. The book is intended to be of practical help primarily to pathologists and trainee pathologists who look at renal biopsy specimens, but also to others who have contact with anyone with renal disorders. The handbook includes more than 240 color illustrations. Other features include practical tips on the differentiation between possible diagnoses and information about eponyms.
General Points About Renal Biopsy Specimens.- Technical Handling of Renal Biopsy Specimens.- How to Look at a Renal Biopsy Specimen: Preliminary Study.- How to Look at a Renal Biopsy Specimen: Initial Study of the Kidney.- Indication for Biopsy: Nephrotic Syndrome.- Indication for Biopsy: Acute Renal Failure.- Indication for Biopsy: Chronic Renal Failure.- Indication for Biopsy: Hematuria.- Indication for Biopsy: Proteinuria.- Indication for Biopsy: Renal Allograft.- Other Indications for Biopsy of Kidneys.
From the reviews of the second edition:
"This brief handbook of renal pathology, almost a pocket-sized book, could be easily carried around by busy nephrologists or renal pathologists. ... Pathologists and their trainees, nephrologists, and renal transplant surgeons are the intended audience. It also could be used by medical students and residents in internal medicine, nurses, and pharmacists. ... This is a wonderful little book that will appeal to practicing nephrologists, nephropathologists, and renal transplant surgeons, as well as their trainees." (Ivan Damjanov, Doody's Review Service, February, 2009)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
General Points About Renal Biopsy Specimens.- Technical Handling of Renal Biopsy Specimens.- How to Look at a Renal Biopsy Specimen: Preliminary Study.- How to Look at a Renal Biopsy Specimen: Initial Study of the Kidney.- Indication for Biopsy: Nephrotic Syndrome.- Indication for Biopsy: Acute Renal Failure.- Indication for Biopsy: Chronic Renal Failure.- Indication for Biopsy: Hematuria.- Indication for Biopsy: Proteinuria.- Indication for Biopsy: Renal Allograft.- Other Indications for Biopsy of Kidneys.
Klappentext
This handbook provides a short, clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Essential information needed for an understanding of renal disorders is given simply and concisely. The focus is on common conditions. The book is intended to be of practical help primarily to pathologists and trainee pathologists who look at renal biopsy specimens, but also to others who have contact with anyone with renal disorders. The handbook includes more than 240 color illustrations. Other features include practical tips on the differentiation between possible diagnoses and information about eponyms.
This handbook provides a short, clear, useful and interesting guide to the findings in renal biopsy specimens. Essential information needed for an understanding of renal disorders is given simply and concisely. The focus is on common conditions and on the rule that diseases give characteristic clinical features. The book is intended to be of practical help primarily to pathologists and trainee pathologists who look at renal biopsy specimens, but also to others who have contact with anyone with renal disorders. This updated edition includes more than 240 color illustrations. Other features include practical tips on the differentiation between possible diagnoses and information about eponyms.
