Multiple Langerhans cell nodules in an incidental thymectomy

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 218-220

  Novak, Lea ^a,b   Castro, Claudia Y ^b   Listinsky, Catherine M ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL POPULATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; LANGERHANS CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS DISEASE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0037324376     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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