Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for refractory myositis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 663-667

  Moriguchi, Masato ^a,b   Suzuki, Takahiro ^a   Tateishi, Mutsuto ^a   Hara, Masako ^a   Kashiwazaki, Sadao ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Matsudo City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

dermatomyositis; interstitial pneumonia; intravenous cyclophosphamide therapy; polymyositis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MYOSITIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYMYOSITIS;

EID: 0029855964     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.663     Document Type: Article

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