Can a diagnosis of renal allograft rejection be based on histology alone?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 300-302

  Midtvedt, K ^a,b   Hartmann, A ^a   Sund, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Graft biopsy; Renal allograft

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; CREATININE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVING DONORS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031749523     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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