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Ciliated renal tubular cells in crescentic glomerulonephritis
1Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Ultrastructural Pathology
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
Numerous cilia were found in the proximal convoluted tubules from a case of crescentic glomerulonephritis. The cilia exhibited the 9 + 2 pattern of organization characteristic of motile cilia. Microvilli were scanty or absent in heavily ciliated cells. The significance of renal cilia is discussed.