Diagnostic impact of percutaneous renal biopsy.

CONCLUSIONS: In summary, PRB was found to be a safe procedure that confirmed the suspected clinical diagnosis in two thirds of patients. As one third of the histopathological analyses demonstrated a non-suspected disease, the biopsies were of major importance for the correct treatment of the patients.
PMID: 26396098 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Nephrology - September 23, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Kitterer D, Gürzing K, Segerer S, Alscher MD, Amann K, Braun N, Latus J Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research