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Anatomic Pathology of Glomerulonephritis

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Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a complex subject to study and understand. The complexity has emerged from a combination of numerous perplexing features of this pathological entity: (1) lack of unanimity in the classifications of glomerulonephritis, (2) our persistent inability in most cases to identify the direct cause or causes of glomerulonephritis, (3) limitations of light microscopy (LM) resolution in delineating finer changes, (4) wide variability in the interpretations of light microscopy findings by different individuals, and (5) the narrow scope of electron and immunofluorescence microscopy techniques around the world.

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Mandal, A.K. (1979). Anatomic Pathology of Glomerulonephritis. In: Electron Microscopy of the Kidney. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1699-3_6

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