Identification of lesions indicating rejection in kidney transplant biopsies: Tubulitis is severely under-detected by conventional microscopy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1252-1255

  Elshafie, Mona ^a   Furness, Peter N ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arteritis; Banff; Kidney transplant biopsies; Rejection; Tubulitis

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTERITIS; ARTERY INTIMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; LYMPHOCYTE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ANTIGENS, CD3; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84861149639     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr473     Document Type: Review

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