Inflammation and glandular duct dilatation of the tongue from patients with chronic Chagas disease

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-156

  De Lima Pereira, Sanívia Aparecida ^a   Rocha Rodrigues, Denise Bertulucci ^a   Da Fonseca Ferraz, Mara Lúcia ^b   Da Cunha Castro, Eumenia Costa ^b   Dos Reis, Marlene Antonia ^b   Antunes Teixeira, Vicente De Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UBERABA   (Brazil)

^b Department of Pathology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOPSY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GLOSSITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SALIVARY GLAND DUCT;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; SALIVARY DUCTS; SALIVARY GLANDS; TONGUE;

EID: 29144445892     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0023-9     Document Type: Article

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