Medial artery calcification of uremic patients: A histological, histochemical and ultrastructural study

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-200

  Ballanti, P ^a   Silvestrini, G ^a   Pisano S ^a,b   De Paolis, P ^c   Di Giulio, S ^c   Mantella, D ^c   Iappelli, M ^c   Favaro A ^c   Bonucci, E ^a   Coen, G ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Piazza San Bartolomeo All'Isola 21   (Italy)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artery calcification; Cell necrosis; Dialysis patients; Liesegang rings; Matrix vesicles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIALYSIS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UREMIA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

CALCINOSIS; DIALYSIS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NECROSIS; TUNICA MEDIA; UREMIA;

EID: 78651309966     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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