Arteriolitis in renal transplant biopsies is associated with poor graft outcome

Histopathology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 488-492

  Bellamy, C O C ^a   Randhawa, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University Medical School ^*

Author keywords

Acute vascular rejection; Arteriolitis; Kidney; Renal transplantation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLES; ARTERITIS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

GLOMERULUS;

EID: 0034076642     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.2000.00908.x     Document Type: Article

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