Mixed cryoglobulinemia: Clinical aspects and long-term follow-up of 40 patients

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 287-308

  Gorevic, Peter D ^a   Kassab, Hannah Jane ^a   Levo, Yoram ^a   Kohn, Robert ^a   Meltzer, Martin ^a   Prose, Philip ^a   Franklin, Edward C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CHLORAMBUCIL; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HYDROXYZINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MERCAPTOPURINE; PENICILLAMINE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; TRIPELENNAMINE; VINBLASTINE;

ARTHRALGIA; BIOPSY; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PURPURA; SKIN; THERAPY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0018934508     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(80)90390-3     Document Type: Review

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