Localized thymic Langerhans' cell histiocytosis and its relationship with myasthenia gravis: Immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and cytometric studies

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 134-138

  Gilcrease, Michael Z ^a   Rajan, Betty ^b   Ostrowski, Mary L ^b   Ramzy, Ibrahim ^b   Schwartz, Mary R ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGERHANS CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THYMUS;

ADULT; DNA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLOIDIES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031037522     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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