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end-stage kidney disease

Thursday 23 April 2009

renal end-stage disease

Digital case

 JRC:18779 : renal end-stage kidney disease

Cytogenetics

Chromosomal changes typical of the papillary renal cell lesions, i.e., trisomies of chromosomes 7 and 17, are very frequent in non-neoplastic parenchyma of the end-stage kidney, and they have a tendency to a multifocal occurrence. (18795325)

References

 End-stage kidney disease: gains of chromosomes 7 and 17 and loss of Y chromosome in non-neoplastic tissue. Hes O, Síma R, Nemcová J, Hora M, Bulimbasic S, Kazakov DV, Urge T, Reischig T, Dvorák M, Michal M. Virchows Arch. 2008 Oct;453(4):313-9. PMID: 18795325