Cardiac Localization of Eosinophil-Granule Major Basic Protein in Acute Necrotizing Myocarditis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 323, Issue 22, 1990, Pages 1542-1545

  Demello, Daphne E ^a   Liapis, Helen ^a   Jureidini, Saadeh ^a   Nouri, Soraya ^a   Kephart, Gail M ^b   Gleich, Gerald J ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDITIS; NECROSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PROTEINS; CASE REPORT; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025243413     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199011293232207     Document Type: Article

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