A patient with graves' disease, myasthenia gravis, and polymyositis

Thyroid

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 631-632

  Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Asakawa, Hideki ^a   Komoike, Yoshifumi ^a   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030866531     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1997.7.631     Document Type: Article

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