The diagnosis of renal allograft rejection: an improved assessment of graft infiltration using image analysis.
These results show that image analysis is an accurate alternative to point counting in the assessment of infiltration in renal allograft biopsies and can provide an efficient and rapid diagnosis of cellular rejection in the transplanted patient.
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Nuffield Department Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, U.K.
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D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000473:pathology; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods; D013690:Television; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous