Morphology of the internal elastic lamina in arteries from pulmonary hypertensive patients: A confocal laser microscopy study

Modern Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 411-416

  Aiello, Vera Demarchi ^a   Gutierrez, Paulo S ^a   Chaves, Márcio J F ^a   Lopes, Antonio A B ^a   Higuchi, Maria L ^a   Ramires, José A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arteries; Congenital cardiac defects; Elastic tissue; Extracellular matrix; Pulmonary circulation; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0038485637     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MP.0000067685.57858.D7     Document Type: Article

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