A case of myocarditis with immunological identification of myocardial and peripheral lymphocyte subsets

JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 94-98

  Kishimoto, Chiharu ^a   Tomioka, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kawai, Chuichi ^a   Tamaki, Shunichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Takeda Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endomyocardial biopsy; Lymphocyte; Myocarditis; Myocardium in situ; Peripheral blood

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MYOCARDITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0023911650     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.52.94     Document Type: Article

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