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Ask-Upmark, normal renal biopsy, arkana laboratories
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Ask-Upmark

This kidney biopsy is from a 16-year-old boy with a history of chronic reflux nephropathy. Imaging findings showed unilateral segmental…

Collagenofibrotic Glomerulopathy
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Diagnose This! (February 12, 2018)

What is your diagnosis? (Congo red is negative as is routine immunofluorescence)   …

By L. Nich Cossey, MD
extensive mesangial and subendothelial deposition of PAS-positive
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Fibronectin Glomerulopathy

A renal biopsy was performed in a 32-year-old female with microscopic hematuria and nephrotic range proteinuria of 4 grams per…


vacuolated cytoplasm, Fabry Disease in Female Carriers
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Fabry Disease in Female Carriers

A renal biopsy was performed on a 51-year-old female with strong family history of Fabry disease and a known carrier…

Amyloid Cast Nephropathy
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Amyloid Cast Nephropathy

Cases of light chain cast nephropathy occasionally show amyloid staining properties including positive staining for Congo red with green birefringence…

Fibrinogen Aα-chain Amyloidosis
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Fibrinogen Aα-chain Amyloidosis

A 65-year-old male, with no significant past medical history, presents with proteinuria and worsening renal function. The serum creatinine is…


Apolipoprotein A-IV Amyloidosis
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Apolipoprotein A-IV Amyloidosis

This renal biopsy from a 71-year-old female, who presented with progressively worsening renal failure, shows unremarkable glomeruli by light microscopy…

Embryonal Hyperplasia of Bowman's Capsule Epithelium
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Embryonal Hyperplasia of Bowman’s Capsule Epithelium

H&E and PAS-stained sections from the kidney of an 8-year-old male with advanced nephrosclerosis of unknown etiology. An exuberant proliferation…

Sclerosing Peritubular Nodule
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Sclerosing Peritubular Nodule

Todays teaching point is a true zebra in renal pathology. The arrows in the light microscopic image identify what have…