The prognostic significance of specific arterial lesions in acute renal allograft rejection

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1301-1308

  Nickeleit, Volker ^a,c   Vamvakas, Eleftherios C ^a   Pascual, Manuel ^a   Poletti, B James ^b   Colvin, Robert B ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDARTERITIS; FOAM CELL; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY GRAFT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY; VASCULAR LESION;

EID: 0031776256     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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