1963/06/01 by Richard H. White · 3 citations
Medicine · #Emergency department #Intensive care medicine #Internal medicine #Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments #Malignancy #Medicine #Muscle and Compartmental Disorders #Oliguria #Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies #Pediatrics #Renal function #Surgery #Urinalysis #Urinary system
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The first serious attempt to develop the technique of percutaneous renal biopsy was made by Iversen and Brun (1951), although its use had previously been reported by Perez Ara (1950). Alwall (1952) abandoned it following a fatality in 1944 but did not report his findings until eight years later. Kark and Muehrcke (1954) devised a more satisfactory biopsy technique in the prone position, using Franklin's modification of the Vim- Silverman liver biopsy needle (Kark, Muehrcke, Pollak, Pirani and Kiefer, 1958) and succeeded 48 times in their first 50 attempts. It was not long before the practical and academic potentialities of percutaneous renal biopsy in childhood were realized; Galakn and Maso (1957) first reported its use in their study of nephrotic children.