Urticaria pigmentosa: A clinical, hematopathologic, and serologic study of 30 adults

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 279-285

  Topar, Gerda ^a,c   Staudacher, Christine ^a   Geisen, Françoise ^b   Gabl, Christoph ^b   Fend, Falco ^b   Herold, Manfred ^b   Greil, Richard ^b   Fritsch, Peter ^a   Sepp, Norbert ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Cancer Registry of Tyrol   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone marrow infiltration; Clinical symptoms; Cytochemistry; Urticaria pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; MALE; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0031885889     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/109.3.279     Document Type: Article

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