Renal pathology, with clinical and functional correlations Book

This important reference has been brought as up-to-date as possible, with more than one-third of the chapters completely rewritten. Renal Pathology, Second Edition is edited by specialists in renal medicine and pathology and distinguished by an emphasis on correlating pathology to clinical findings. Covers normal renal structure and function and the clinical patterns of functional disturbances due to immunologic, infectious, vascular and metabolic causes. Helps the reader analyze renal biopsy specimens and define and categorize renal structural injury at its earliest stages. New in the second edition: new chapters on AIDS, renal tuberculosis, immunotactoid glomerulopathy, and malignancies and secondary development. Also included are 24 new color illustrations.

This book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.