Morphologic features of extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis C virus infection

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ko, Huaibin M ^a   Hernandez Prera, Juan C ^a   Zhu, Hongfa ^a   Dikman, Steven H ^a   Sidhu, Harleen K ^a   Ward, Stephen C ^a   Thung, Swan N ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ZINC;

AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHEMA; EXTRAHEPATIC MANIFESTATION; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LICHEN PLANUS; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NECROLYTIC ACRAL ERYTHEMA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIALOADENITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; VASCULITIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASES; IMMUNOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84866149821     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: 17402530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/740138     Document Type: Review

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