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Renal biopsy is hardly ever done, other than for the nephrotic syndrome, acute kidney injury (acute renal failure), chronic renal failure, hematuria, and proteinuria, and in renal allografts. Renal biopsy may be used in investigation of the clinically normal kidney in systemic disease, such as vasculitis. Some unusual metabolic or other familial or tubular disorders may be investigated by renal biopsy. Renal biopsy may be used to investigate a renal mass. The commonest finding is renal cell carcinoma. A neoplasm may be found by chance in any biopsy specimen.
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Howie, A.J. (2020). Other Indications for Biopsy of Kidneys. In: Handbook of Renal Biopsy Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40939-5_12
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