Utility of abdominal skin plus subcutaneous fat and rectal mucosal biopsy in the diagnosis of AL amyloidosis with renal involvement

Ting Li; Xianghua Huang; Shuiqin Cheng; Liang Zhao; Guisheng Ren; Wencui Chen; Qingwen Wang; Caihong Zeng; Zhihong Liu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185078

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Utility of abdominal skin plus subcutaneous fat and rectal mucosal biopsy in the diagnosis of AL amyloidosis with renal involvement

Ting Li,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Disease, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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Xianghua Huang ,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: hxhszb@163.com

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Shuiqin Cheng,

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Liang Zhao,

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Guisheng Ren,

Roles Software

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Wencui Chen,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Qingwen Wang,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Caihong Zeng,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Zhihong Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Utility of abdominal skin plus subcutaneous fat and rectal mucosal biopsy in the diagnosis of AL amyloidosis with renal involvement

Ting Li,
Xianghua Huang,
Shuiqin Cheng,
Liang Zhao,
Guisheng Ren,
Wencui Chen,
Qingwen Wang,
Caihong Zeng,
Zhihong Liu

Published: September 19, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185078

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