Are gastrointestinal mucosal mast cells increased in patients with systemic mastocytosis?

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 560-565

  Siegert, Sabine I ^a,b   Diebold, Joachim ^a   Ludolph Hauser, Dagmar ^a   Löhrs, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Thalkirchnerstraße 22   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal mucosa; Mast cell count; Mastocytosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 4644364655     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/2880LF7Q6XK3HA3Q     Document Type: Article

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