Pancreas allograft biopsies in the management of pancreas transplant recipients: Histopathologic review and clinical correlations

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1192-1199

  Gaber, Lillian W ^a,b  

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

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RELEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATITIS; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34547869783     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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