A quantitative histologic analysis of collagen subtypes: The primary obstructed and refluxing megaureter of childhood

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 820-823

  Lee, Benjamin R ^a   Silver, Richard I ^a   Partin, Alan W ^a   Epstein, Jonathan I ^a   Gearhart, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MEGAURETER; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; URETER;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLLAGEN; COLORING AGENTS; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; REPLANTATION; SILVER NITRATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0031745193     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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