Giant cell myocarditis in a 12-year-old girl with common variable immunodeficiency

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 92-96

  Laufs, Helmut ^a   Nigrovic, Peter Andrija ^a   Schneider, Lynda C ^a   Oettgen, Hans ^a   Del Nido, Pedro ^a   Moskowitz, Ivan P G ^a   Blume, Elizabeth ^a   Perez Atayde, Antonio R ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL MYOCARDITIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0036141052     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/77.1.92     Document Type: Article

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