Pathological analysis of the cavitary wall in Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex pulmonary infection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 617-621

  Fujita, Jiro ^a   Ohtsuki, Yuji ^b   Shigeto, Eriko ^c   Suemitsu, Ichizo ^d   Yamadori, Ichiro ^d   Shiode, Masahiro ^e   Nishumura, Kazutaka ^f   Hirayama, Takeshi ^f   Matsushima, Toshihara ^g   Ishida, Toshihiko ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c National Hiroshima Hospital   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e Department of Ophthalmology Uwajima Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^f National Ehime Hospital   (Japan)

^g KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavity formation; Epithelioid cells; Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex (MAC) infection; Myofibroblasts; Pathological and immunohistochemical findings

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD68 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYOFIBROBLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOMA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036668604     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.617     Document Type: Article

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