Pulmonary arterial hypertension with plexogenic arteriopathy in enzyme-substituted Gaucher disease

Histopathology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 324-326

  den Bakker, Michael A ^a,b   Grünberg, Katrien ^c   Boonstra, Anco ^d   van Hal, Peter Th W ^a   Hollak, Carla E M ^e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Maasstad Hospital Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c Departments of Pathology   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GAUCHER DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; PLEXOGENIC ARTERIOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GAUCHER DISEASE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84864383177     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2012.04261.x     Document Type: Letter

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