Polyomavirus nephropathy - recent pathological diagnostic problems and the report from the 2011 Banff meeting

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL.24, 2012, Pages 9-12

  Nishi, Shinichi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinicopathological study; Interobserver reproducibility; SV 40 T antigen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; POLYOMAVIRUS NEPHROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84863219614     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2012.01648.x     Document Type: Article

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