Structural and immunological characteristics of chronically inflamed adenotonsillar tissue in childhood

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1154-1157

  Passàli, Desiderio ^a   Damiani, Valerio ^a   Passàli, Giulio Cesare ^a   Passàli, Francesco Maria ^a   Boccazzi, Antonio ^b   Bellussi, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADENOID; ADENOIDECTOMY; ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALATINE TONSIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITRIMETRY; TONSILLITIS;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADENOIDS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 9144245687     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.6.1154-1157.2004     Document Type: Article

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