Significance of clinically silent untreated mild acute cellular rejection in lung allograft recipients

Human Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-273

  Yousem, Samuel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

acute rejection; bronchiolitis obliterans; histopathology; lung transplantation; pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 0029969425     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(96)90068-4     Document Type: Article

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