Human Pathology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 3-10 , January 2003

Incidental healed postinfectious glomerulonephritis: A study of 1012 renal biopsy specimens examined by electron microscopy

,Accepted 19 September 2002.

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☆ Address correspondence and reprint requests to Mark Haas, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 712 Pathology Building, 600 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21287.

PII: S0046-8177(03)00008-X

doi: 10.1053/hupa.2003.53

Human Pathology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 3-10 , January 2003

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