Percutaneous Renal Biopsy in Egyptian Children: A Five-year Single-Center Experience.

Ultrasound-guided percutaneous renal biopsy (PRB) stands as an important tool of diagnostic and prognostic value, besides its role in determining the best therapeutic option in some diseases. The advance in medicine over the past years made PRB safer and more feasible. This is an observational retrospective study in a tertiary referral center of pediatric nephrology and was conducted to determine both the indications and the histopathological findings of renal biopsies performed in pediatric patients.