Acute severe urticaria and angioedema leading to myocardial infarction

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-104

  Vaswani, Surender K ^a,b   Plack, Raymond H ^a   Norman, Philip S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; URTICARIA;

EID: 0029815015     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1081-1206(10)63494-1     Document Type: Article

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