Quantitative microscopic analysis of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis synovial membrane samples selected at arthroscopy compared with samples obtained blindly by needle biopsy

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 663-669

  Youssef, Peter P ^a   Kraan, Maarten ^b   Breedveld, Ferdinand ^b   Bresnihan, Barry ^a,e   Cassidy, Nicola ^a   Cunnane, Gaye ^a   Emery, Paul ^c   Fitzgerald, Oliver ^a   Kane, David ^a   Lindblad, Staffan ^d   Reece, Richard ^c   Veale, Douglas ^c   Tak, Paul P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; OKT 3;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICROSCOPY; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0031948220     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199804)41:4<663::AID-ART13>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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