Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion

Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion
a microscopic spherical hyaline mass surrounded by capillaries, found in the kidney glomerulus in the nodular form of intercapillary glomerulosclerosis and virtually pathognomonic of diabetes mellitus. Called also Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodule.

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