Ultrastructural features of eosinophilic oesophagitis: Impact of treatment on desmosomes

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 51-56

  Capocelli, Kelley E ^a   Fernando, Shahan D ^a,b,c   Menard Katcher, Calies ^a,b,c   Furuta, Glenn T ^a,b,c   Masterson, Joanne C ^a,b,c   Wartchow, Eric P ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEGRANULATION; DESMOSOME; ENDOSCOPY; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DESMOSOMES; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84919341436     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202586     Document Type: Article

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