The fourth fascicle in the non-tumour series is devoted to the highly significant area of kidney disease. This comprehensive volume with 721 pages and 1349 illustrations is divided into twenty six chapters. It covers the major disease categories including congenital and hereditary diseases, acquired diseases of the native kidney as well as diseases of the renal allograft. Contents: Normal Renal Anatomy Histology and Development * Congenital Abnormalities including Cystic Diseases * Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome * Hereditary Nephropathies * Minimal Change Disease * Focal Segmental Glomerulopathy * Membranous Glomerulopathy * An Approach to the Pathologic Diagnosis of Glomerulonephritis * Glomerular Diseases with Paraproteinemia of Organized Deposits * Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis * Acute Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis and other Bactrerial Infections * IgA Nephropathy and Henoch-Schonlein Purpura * Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and other Rheumatologic Diseases * Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Glomerulonephritis and Goodpasture's Syndrome * Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-Associated Pauci-Immune Glomerulonephritis and Vasculitis and other Vasculitides * Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis Renal Artery Stenosis and Atheroembolization * Diabetic Nephropathy * Thrombotic Microangiopathies and Coagulopathies * Diseases of the Renal Tubules * Infectious Tubulointerstitial Nephritis * Non-Infectious Tubulointerstitial Nephropathies * Plasma Cell Dyscrasia: Tubulointerstitial Involvement * Renal Stones * Hydronephrosis (Obstructive Nephropathy) The End-Stage Kidney * Pathology of Renal Transplantation