Incidence of peripheral blood eosinophilia and the threshold eosinophile count for indicating hypereosinophilia-associated diseases

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 950-956

  Kobayashi, S ^a   Inokuma, S ^a   Setoguchi, K ^a   Kono, H ^a   Abe, K ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; Eosinophile; Hypereosinophilic syndrome; IgE; Malignancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM;

ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036786321     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1398-9995.2002.23479.x     Document Type: Article

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