Balkan endemic nephropathy and associated urinary tract tumours: a review on aetiological causes and the potential role of mycotoxins

Pfohl‐Leszkowicz, Annie; Petkova‐Bocharova, T.; N. Chernozemsky, I.; Castegnaro, M.

doi:10.1080/02652030110079815

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Balkan endemic nephropathy and associated urinary tract tumours: a review on aetiological causes and the potential role of mycotoxins

Published in Food Additives & Contaminants • Mar 1, 2002

Authors:

Annie Pfohl‐Leszkowicz

T. Petkova‐Bocharova

I. N. Chernozemsky

Abstract

A series of publications in the 1950s described a kidney disease in Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia and Romania that became known as Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN). The disease was qualified by World Health Organisation (WHO) experts as 'progressive and very gradually developing renal failure with...

Subject

Urinary system

Etiology

Obstructive uropathy

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