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Nature Reviews Nephrology 2, 622–623 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpneph0322

Scoring arteriolar hyalinosis in renal allograft biopsies: so important and yet so tricky

Jeremy Chapman

Sis B et al. (2006) Reproducibility studies on arteriolar hyaline thickening scoring in calcineurin inhibitor-treated renal allograft recipients. Am J Transplant 6: 1444–1450 Synopsis Background Accurate assessment of arteriolar hyaline deposition is important for the diagnosis of chronic calcineurin-inhibitor nephrotoxicity, but such assessment is not always reproducible when the Banff 97 classification system is used.