Peribiliary capillary plexus around interlobular bile ducts in various chronic liver diseases: An immunohistochemical and morphometric study

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 869-873

  Matsunaga, Yoshiko ^a   Terada, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver diseases; Autoimmune hepatitis; CD34; Chronic hepatitis; Immunohistochemistry; Peribiliary capillary plexus; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE DUCT; CAPILLARY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BILIARY TRACT; CAPILLARIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032755278     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00959.x     Document Type: Article

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