A Case of Amyloidosis

Jung Eun Suh, Yoon Ja Kim, Do Yeun Oh, Kyun Il Yoon, Woon Sup Han, Ok Kyung Kim

Corresponding author: Ok Kyung Kim. Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

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Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

We had experienced one case of amyloidosis, especially involving kidney associated with nephrotic syndrome and liver who was admitted to Ewha University Hospital due to abdominal distension and extremities edema.

Diagnozis was made characteristic clinical and histopathologic finding with crystal violet and congo red staining produced green birefringence under polarized light.

We sdiscussed this case with review of literatures.