Thymic Hassall's bodies of children with congenital heart defects

Bratislava Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 552-557

  Varga, I ^a   Pospisilova, V ^a   Jablonska, V ^b   Sisovsky, V ^a   Galfiova, P ^a   Polak, S ^a   Adamkov, M ^c  

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

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c University Teaching Hospital in Martin   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Hassall's bodies; Neural crest cells; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THYMUS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 78249287516     PISSN: 00069248     EISSN: 13360345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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