Clinical significance of the distribution of C4d deposits in different anatomic compartments of the allograft kidney

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1490-1498

  Batal, Ibrahim ^a   Girnita, Alin ^a   Zeevi, Adriana ^a   Saab, Bassel Abou ^a   Stockhausen, Sean ^a   Shapiro, Ron ^a   Basu, Amit ^a   Tan, Henkie ^a   Morgan, Claire ^a   Randhawa, Parmjeet ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Allograft; Antibody mediated rejection; C4d immunostain; Kidney; Transplant glomerulopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE DEGENERATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TUBULE BASEMENT MEMBRANE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPILLARIES; COMPLEMENT C4B; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; ISOANTIGENS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 56649114376     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.152     Document Type: Article

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