Glutaraldehyde-induced esophageal injury: Histologic study of laboratory rats

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 730-733

  Isserow, Jonathan A ^a   Kumar, Nitin ^a   Goldschmidt, Michael H ^a   Furth, Emma E ^b   Levine, Marc S ^a   Laufer, Igor ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal injury; Esophagitis; Glutaraldehyde injury

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYOSITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032470974     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199810000-00003     Document Type: Article

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