Pulmonary sarcoidosis: Could mycoplasma-like organisms be a cause?

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-42

  Johnson, Lewis A ^a   Edsall, John R ^a   Austin, John H M ^a   Ellis, Kent ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; endothelial cells; leucocytes; mycoplasma like organisms; pulmonary sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MYCOPLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0029939731     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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