Variations in alveolar cell populations, lymphocyte subsets and NK-cells in different stages of active pulmonary sarcoidosis.

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Published in Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis on March 01, 2005

Authors

Despina Papakosta1, George Kyriazis, Dimitrios Gioulekas, Theodore Kontakiotis, Thalia Polyzoni, Demosthenes Bouros, Dimitrios Patakas

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pneumonology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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