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The case of an 8-year-old girl who had a fatal pulmonary haemorrhage and crescentic glomerulonephritis without autoantibodies is presented. Circulating anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies, circulating immune complexes and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies were not detected. To our knowledge this is the youngest reported case of the disease.
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Seki, Y., Maruyama, K., Tomizawa, S. et al. Fatal pulmonary haemorrhage and crescentic glomerulonephritis without autoantibodies: a paediatric case report. Pediatr Nephrol 7, 65–66 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00861572
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