Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome associated with malignant thymoma

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 340-346

  Ishida, I ^a,b   Hirakata, H ^b   Kanai, H ^a   Nakayama, M ^a   Katafuchi, R ^c   Oochi, N ^a   Okuda, S ^a   Fujishima, M ^a  

^a Yamanashi Medical University   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Nephrotic syndrome; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; THYMOMA; THYMUS LYMPHOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029845317     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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