Vasculitis, Pulmonary Cavitation, and Anemia During Antithyroid Drug Therapy

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 118-122

  Cassorla, Fernando G ^a   Thawerani, Hasina ^a   Parks, John S ^a   Tenore, Alfred ^a   Baker, Lester ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; PREDNISONE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NEPHRITIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; RASH; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; THERAPY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; VASCULITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; PREDNISONE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROIDECTOMY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0020680613     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1983.02140280016005     Document Type: Article

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