The Value of Renal Biopsy

Ross, J. H.; Ross, IanP.

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“…This would agree with our experience, in which a diagnosis could be made in three patients on the basis of one glomerulus in each of their biopsy specimens, while in three patients with more than 10 glomeruli, no diagnosis could be made. Ross and Ross (1957) considered that careful clinical assessment together with laboratory and radiological information could allow a diagnosis to be made in most cases of glomerulonephritis and renal biopsy only provides confirmation. They found that the differentiation between benign and malignant hypertension and the presence of pyelonephritis could not always be made with certainty by renal biopsy, and that its most useful role lay in the differential diagnosis of the nephrotic syndrome.…”

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Renal biopsy in a general hospital

Turner

1963

Journal of Clinical Pathology

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Renal biopsy in a general hospital

Turner

1963

Journal of Clinical Pathology

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“…Renal biopsy was performed by the method of Kark and Muehrcke (1954) with minor modifications (Ross and Ross, 1957).…”

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Renal Biopsy in Gout

Greenbaum¹,

Ross²,

Steinberg³

1961

BMJ

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“…To begin with, almost the whole range of renal disease was subjected to investigation by the new technique, from renal gly cosuria [102], ncphrocalcinosis [103], acute renal failure [104,105], systemic diseases affecting the kidney, acute and chronic pyelonephritis [106] to acute nephritis [107] and the nephrotic syndrome . The latter half of the 1950s saw a gradual concentration on primary and secondary' glomerular disease [74, 75, 78.…”

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The Introduction of Renal Biopsy into Nephrology from 1901 to 1961: A Paradigm of the Forming of Nephrology by Technology

Hicks²

1997

Am J Nephrol

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‘Biopsy’ (Besnier 1895) became useful towards the end of the 19th century with the development of good histology and microbiology. Needle biopsy of the liver, although first performed in 1895, did not become current until 50 years later. Surgical biopsy of the kidney at incidental operations, particularly the then fashionable renal decapsulation, was performed from 1900 to 1930. Percutaneous needle renal biopsy was introduced after first, the successfull liver biopsy and second, demonstration of the value of aspiration needle biopsy in tumours of the kidney. In addition, a number of physicians obtained renal tissue by accident and without problems during intended biopsies of the liver. Nils Alwall of Sweden performed the first systematic aspiration needle biopsies of the kidney in 1944, but did not publish his results because of an early death which led him to abandon the technique. However, when Iversen and Brun in Copenhagen described their results in 1951, a number of physicians around the world immediately began to attempt renal biopsy, using cutting as well as aspiration techniques. Success was inconsistent and operator dependent: the refinements of technique and needles introduced by the group in Chicago led by Robert Kark, plus their advocacy of the technique and their training of many physicians in its performance rapidly led to widespread acceptance. New techniques of immunofluorescence and electron microscopy arrived at the same time so that the technique could be fully exploited. The performance and interpretation of renal biopsies became, along with classical whole-organ and nephron physiology and the introduction of dialysis and transplantation, powerful agents determining the emergence of Nephrology as a specialty around 1960.

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The Value of Renal Biopsy

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Renal biopsy in a general hospital

Renal biopsy in a general hospital

Renal Biopsy in Gout

The Introduction of Renal Biopsy into Nephrology from 1901 to 1961: A Paradigm of the Forming of Nephrology by Technology

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