Banff criteria as predictors of outcome following acute renal allograft rejection

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1692-1697

  Macdonald, Finlay I ^a   Ashraf, Shaz ^a   Picton, Michael ^a   Dyer, Philip A ^a   Parrott, Neil R ^a   Short, Colin D ^a   Roberts, Ian S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Banff classification; Eosinophilia; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GLOMERULITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033032257     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.7.1692     Document Type: Article

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