Adenoviral appendicitis presenting clinically as acute appendicitis

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Grynspan, David ^a   Rabah, Raja ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Appendicitis; Appendix; Children; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS ANTIBODY; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADENOVIRAL APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS INCLUSION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CHILD; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCLUSION BODIES, VIRAL; INTRANUCLEAR INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44949238130     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/07-06-0299.1     Document Type: Article

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