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Secondary renal amyloidosis in a 13-year-old girl with bronchiectasis
Eun Ae Yang, Dong Won Lee, Myung Chul Hyun, Min Hyun Cho
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2010;53(7):770-773.   Published online July 31, 2010

A 13-year-old girl was diagnosed with non-cystic fibrosis (CF)-related multifocal bronchiectasis accompanied by nephrotic-range proteinuria of unknown cause. On renal biopsy, there were many segmental homogeneous deposits of amyloid tissue with positive Congo red staining in the glomeruli and interstitium. On electron microscopy, relatively straight, non-branching, randomly arranged amyloid fibrils were showed in the mesangium of the glomeruli. These fibrils...

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