Table 1 Histologic patterns of dense deposit disease
From: Dense deposit disease is not a membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Pattern # | Pattern name | Pattern description |
|---|---|---|
1 | Membranoproliferative dense deposit disease | Thickened capillary loops and endocapillary proliferation |
2 | Mesangial proliferative dense deposit disease | Focal, segmental mesangial hypercellularity |
3 | Crescentic dense deposit disease | Crescents involving >50% of glomeruli |
4 | Acute proliferative and exudative dense deposit disease | Endocapillary proliferation with neutrophilic infiltration |
5 | Unclassified dense deposit disease | Intermediate electron dense transformation by electron microscopy |
