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In all specimens, the most important part of initial study is to determine the extent of tubular atrophy. The pathologist should assess glomerular size, whether glomeruli look normal, whether abnormalities are in every glomerulus, called diffuse, or only in some glomeruli, called focal, and whether abnormalities are throughout a glomerulus, called global, or only in part of a glomerulus, called segmental.
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D’Agati VD, Jennette JC, Silva FG. Non-neoplastic kidney diseases. Atlas of nontumor pathology, first series, fascicle 4. Washington, DC: American Registry of Pathology and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; 2005. Chapter 16
Jennette JC, Olson JL, Silva FG, D’Agati VD, editors. Heptinstall’s pathology of the kidney. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer; 2015. Chapter 3
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Howie, A.J. (2020). How to Look at a Renal Biopsy Specimen: Initial Study of the Kidney. In: Handbook of Renal Biopsy Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40939-5_5
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