Histological grading of chronic pancreas allograft rejection/graft sclerosis

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 599-605

  Papadimitriou, John C ^a   Drachenberg, Cinthia B ^a   Klassen, David K ^a   Gaber, Lillian ^b   Racusen, Lorraine C ^c   Voska, Ludek ^d   Cangro, Charles B ^a   Ramos, Emilio ^a   Wali, Ravinder ^a   Weir, Matthew R ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Graft failure; Late acute rejection; Pancreas fibrosis; Percutaneous needle biopsy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PARENCHYMA; PATHOLOGIST; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCLEROSIS;

BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038585117     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2003.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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