Myocardial fibrosis assessment by semiquantitative, point-counting and computer-based methods in patients with heart muscle disease: A comparative study

Histopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 338-343

  Vasiljevic J D ^a,b   Popovic Z B ^b   Otasevic P ^b   Popovic Z V ^a   Vidakovic R ^b   Miric M ^b   Neskovic A N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Endomyocardial biopsy; Heart muscle disease; Morphometry; Myocardial fibrosis assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART DILATATION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CELL COUNT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDITIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035572106     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.2001.01101.x     Document Type: Article

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