Association among size of thymus, anthropometric dimensions and number of lymphocytes in peripheral blood in newborns from Slovakia

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-234

  Varga, Ivan ^a,b,c   Toth, Frantisek ^d   Uhrinova, Alexandra ^d   Nescakova, Eva ^e   Polak, Stefan ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c St Elizabeth University College of Health and Social Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d ForLife General Hospital   (Slovakia)

^e Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Newborns; Number of lymphocytes; Thymic index; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; SLOVAKIA; THYMUS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SLOVAKIA; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70350000618     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 12138118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2009.040     Document Type: Article

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