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Thymic epithelial abnormalities in patients with congenital heart disease and Down's syndrome
Author(s) -
DYBDAHL H.,
HENRIQUES U. V.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
apmis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0903-4641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1993.tb00083.x
Subject(s) - heart disease , medicine , down syndrome , cardiology , pathology , psychiatry
Among 85 children (< 5 years) operated on for congenital heart disease, we found 15 with structural changes of the thymus consisting of epithelial ducts and cysts. Nine of the children had Down's syndrome. In only two of these did we find epithelial abnormalities. In conclusion, these changes were not more frequent in children with Down's syndrome than in other patients with congenital heart disease.