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(9 Results)![Kappa-Restricted Light Chain Deposition Disease, renal cortex](https://www.arkanalabs.com/wp-content/uploads/x39-copy-432x288.jpg)
Diagnose This (July 23, 2018)
What is your diagnosis? The images show thickened tubular basement membranes on PAS stain and kappa restricted staining of the…
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Peritubular Giant Cells
When giant cells surround tubules This renal biopsy was taken from a young woman with elevated serum creatinine (4.3 mg/dL),…
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Light Chain Deposition Disease
The immunofluorescence in cases of monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease is characterized by linear tubular basement membrane staining. In these cases,…
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Pushing Glass (June 22, 2018)
The patient is an 80 year-old male who presents with fatigue and a creatinine of 6.5 mg/dl. He was in…
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Pushing Glass (January 26, 2018)
An otherwise asymptomatic 65-year-old man presents for medical evaluation after 15 years of not seeing a physician. He was noted…
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Light Chain Deposition Disease
An elderly patient presents to nephrology for a rising creatinine. Baseline creatinine was 2.1 mg/dl six weeks prior but is…
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Light Chain Deposition Disease and Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy
An elderly but previously healthy patient presents with weakness and fatigue and was found to have a creatinine of 3.0…