Clonal B cell populations in a minority of patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1258-1263

  Saxena, A ^a   Alport, E C ^b   Moshynska, O ^a   Kanthan, R ^a   Boctor, M A ^a  

^a ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Royal University Hospital ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 10044286197     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.018416     Document Type: Article

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