Measurements of cortical interstitium in biopsies from human kidney grafts: how representative and how reproducible?

Autor: Ellingsen, Anne Ringer, Nyengaard, Jens Randel, Østerby, Ruth, Jørgensen, Kaj Anker, Petersen, Steffen Ellebæk, Marcussen, Niels
Zdroj: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation; May2002, Vol. 17 Issue 5, p788-792, 5p
Abstrakt: Background. The aim of the study was to evaluate how well a biopsy from one region of a human renal allograft represented biopsies from other regions regarding the renal interstitial tissue assessed by stereology. Furthermore, we wanted to evaluate the reproducibility of the measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Databáze: Complementary Index