ANCA is most specific and sensitive marker for
Robbins 9/e p 910-911 merulonephritis and cases of crescentic glomerulone- phritis that occur as a component of systemic vasculitis, and the similar pathologic features in either setting, have led to the idea that these disorders are pathogeneti- cally related. According to this concept, all cases of crescentic glomerulonephritis of the pauci-immune type are manifestations of small-vessel vasculitis or polyangiitis, which is limited to glomerular and perhaps peritubular capillaries in cases of idiopathic crescentic glomerulonephritis. Since these entities are viewed
Idiopathic cresteric glomerlunephritis
Post streptococcal Glomerulonephritis
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Focal segmental Glomerulunephritis
General anatomy