T-lymphocyte subsets in bronchoalveolar lavage: A flow-cytometric analysis and its importance in the differential diagnosis of sarcoidosis

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 204-207

  Jamaati, Hamid Reza ^a   Mansoori, Seyed Davood ^a   Najafizadeh, Katayoun ^a   Mohammadi, Froozan ^a   Masjedi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Entezami, Zinat ^b   Shahgasempour, Shapour ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CD4 CD8 ratio; Sarcoidosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CD15 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0347526153     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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