Perivascular infiltrate of memory lymphocytes and mature dendritic cells in MG thymomas

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 770-772

  Nagane, Y ^a   Utsugisawa, K ^a   Akutsu, H ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Terayama, Y ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MEMORY CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS;

EID: 24644486420     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000174560.35190.84     Document Type: Article

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