Eosinophilic Coronary Periarteritis with Arterial Dissection: The Mast Cell Hypothesis

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1088-1092

  Mandal, Rakesh ^a   Brooks, Erin G ^a   Corliss, Robert F ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac mast cells; Eosinophil cardiotoxicity; Eosinophilic coronary periarteritis; Forensic science; Sudden cardiac death; Sudden coronary arterial dissection

Indexed keywords

TRYPTASE;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; ARTERITIS; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURIES; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MAST CELL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; ARTERITIS; CELL COUNT; CORONARY VESSELS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; TRYPTASES; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84938215531     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12752     Document Type: Article

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