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Example of a scoring system that combines lesion parameters to define each category.
| Score | Kidney scoring for acute tubular injury |
|---|---|
| 1 | Isolated tubular ectasia, rare sloughed cells in tubular lumens, inflammation absent to minimal |
| 2 | Multifocal tubular ectasia, patchy sloughed cells in tubular lumens, rare to multifocal interstitial inflammation |
| 3 | Coalescing to diffuse tubular ectasia, diffuse sloughed and necrotic cells obstructing tubular lumens, multifocal to diffuse inflammation |
