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Fluorescent Ureteral Catheter‐Assisted Retroperitoneoscopic Biopsy for Periureteral IgG4‐Related Disease Mimicking Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Paper B Peer reviewed Small trial

Key takeaways

A biopsy technique for kidney disease using a catheter: this method was used in 15 patients with-grade 3 CKD. It may cause kidney injury: one patient had a bleeding event. This method is used for diagnosing glomerular diseases that mimic cancer.

Who did this work

Takeshi Yoshida (Fukuoka Hospital) · TOMEI SUGI (Fukuoka Hospital) · K. Tanigawa (Fukuoka Hospital) · Shogo Fujii (Fukuoka Hospital) · Kohei Yasuda (Uji Hospital) · Atsushi Fukuda (Takao Hospital) · Kiyotaka Iihara (Mirai Hospital) · Keisuke Kuretake (Fukuoka Hospital) · Katsuyoshi Higashijima (Fukuoka Hospital) · Shuji Harada (Fukuoka Hospital)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-11
https://doi.org/10.1002/iju5.70246