Phenol congo red staining enhances the diagnostic value of abdominal fat aspiration biopsy in reactive AA amyloidosis secondary to rheumatoid arthritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 400-405

  Ishii, Wataru ^a   Matsuda, Masayuki ^a   Nakamura, Naoshi ^a   Katsumata, Shinichi ^b   Toriumi, Hiroshi ^b   Suzuki, Akio ^b   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Marunouchi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkaline congo red staining; Endoscopic examination; Gastroinstestinal tract

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; CONGO RED; PHENOL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BODY FAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE MUCOSA; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOMACH MUCOSA;

EID: 0038174742     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.400     Document Type: Article

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