Thyroid involvement by malignant histiocytosis of Langerhans' cell type

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 357-363

  Kitahama, Shinji ^a   Iitaka, Makoto ^a   Shimizu, Tadashi ^a   Serizawa, Naoki ^a   Fukasawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Miura, Shiro ^a   Kawasaki, Satomi ^a   Yamanaka, Kayo ^a   Kawakami, Yoshito ^a   Murakami, Saburo ^a   Ishii, Jun ^a   Katayama, Shigehiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; DOXORUBICIN; LYSOZYME; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 9544226456     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.8020819.x     Document Type: Article

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