Quantitative analyses of sacroiliac biopsies in spondyloarthropathies: T cells and macrophages predominate in early and active sacroiliitis - Cellularity correlates with the degree of enhancement detected by magnetic resonance imaging

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-140

  Bollow, M ^a   Fischer, T ^a   Reisshauer H ^a   Backhaus, M ^a   Sieper, J ^b   Hamm, B ^a   Braun, J ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SACROILIITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACROILIAC JOINT; SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034069191     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.2.135     Document Type: Article

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