When Should Renal Biopsy be Done?

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Muth, R.G. : The safety of percutaneous renal biopsy: an analysis of five hundred consecutive cases. J. Urol. 94: 1, 1965.

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Riley, J.M. : Renal arteriovenous fistula: a complicatian of percutaneous renal biopsy. J. Urol. 93: 333, 1965.

Rosenbaum, J.L. and McCormack , L.J. : Use of renal biopsy to predict the clinical result of hemodialysis in chronic renal disease. Cleveland Clin. Quart. 28: 5, 1961.

Ross, J.H. : Recurrent focal nephritis. Quart. J. Med. 29: 391, 1960.

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White, R.H.R. : Observations on percutaneous renal biopsy in children. Arch. Dis. Child. 38: 260, 1963.