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Mast cell infiltrates in vulvodynia represent secondary and idiopathic mast cell hyperplasias.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 May 2015
Regauer Sigrid, Eberz Barbara, Beham-Schmid Christine
Abstract excerpt
Mast cell infiltrates in tissues of vulvodynia are common, but they have not been characterized for criteria of neoplastic mast cell disease or correlated with patient's concomitant diseases associated with increased mast cells. Formalin-fixed specimens of 35 patients with vulvodynia were evaluated immunohistochemically with antibodies to CD 3,4,8,20,117c and human mast cell tryptase, and for WHO-criteria of...
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