title: [Morphologic diagnosis of various forms of thymus gland diseases in children using morphometry].
abstract: Quantitative criteria of obscure thymic pathology (OTP) are obtained by morphometric study of the thymus of 102 infants with severe infectious-inflammatory processes (IIP). OTP is characterised by depression of epithelial hyperplasia in accidental involution found in 28.4% IIP and is followed by the disturbances mainly in the cell immunity system. This type of thymus pathology is associated in 69% of cases with congenital anomaly of the viscera and skeleton this allowing to regard it as a form of thymus fetal dysplasia.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Barsukov
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Dudka
mesh_terms: D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007239:Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000473:pathology*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000473:pathology