1. AJKD Atlas of Renal Pathology: Diabetic Nephropathy
Behzad Najafian, MD, Agnes B. Fogo, MD, Mark A. Lusco, MD, Charles E. Alpers, MD 
American Journal of Kidney Diseases 
Volume 66, Issue 5, Pages e37-e38 (November 2015)
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2. Figure 1
(A) Diabetic nephropathy with diffuse mesangial expansion and arteriolar hyalinosis (red arrow). (B) Diabetic nephropathy with nodular mesangial expansion (Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules) and concomitant hyalinosis of afferent and efferent arterioles (red arrows; Jones silver stain).
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3. Figure 2
Advanced diabetic nephropathy with Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodule (upper asterisk) with adjacent mesangiolysis (yellow arrow) and a microaneurysm (white arrow) with prominent arteriolar hyalinosis (red arrow). There is a capsular drop (lower asterisk) on Bowman capsule (Jones silver stain).
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4. Figure 3
Advanced diabetic nephropathy with prominent thickening of glomerular basement membranes with expanded mesangium, predominantly due to increased mesangial matrix. There is segmental foot process effacement, indicative of podocyte injury (electron microscopy).
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5. Figure 4
Diabetic nephropathy with tubular basement membrane thickening in nonatrophic tubules (electron microscopy).
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