The relative composition of the inflammatory infiltrate as an additional tool for synovial tissue classification.

OBJECTIVES: Traditionally, differences in absolute numbers of cells expressing a certain marker (e.g., positive staining cells per mm²) have been used in immunohistological synovial tissue classification. We have begun to evaluate the relative composition of the inflammatory infiltrates, i.e. percen...

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Main Authors: Cristina Della Beffa, Elisabeth Slansky, Claudia Pommerenke, Frank Klawonn, Jialiang Li, Lie Dai, H Ralph Schumacher, Frank Pessler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3738641?pdf=render