Autoimmune enteropathy with a CD8 + CD7 - T-cell small bowel intraepithelial lymphocytosis: Case report and literature review

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bishu, Shrinivas ^a   Arsenescu, Violeta ^a   Lee, Eun Y ^a   Vargas, H David ^a   de Villiers, Willem J S ^a   Arsenescu, Razvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; METRONIDAZOLE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD7 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE ENTEROPATHY; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ CD7- T CELL SMALL BOWEL INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; WEIGHT GAIN; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD7; ANTIGENS, CD8; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 82255160660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-11-131     Document Type: Article

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