Treated Wegener's granulomatosis: Distinctive pathological findings in the lungs of 20 patients and what they tell us about the natural history of the disease

Human Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 450-458

  Mark, Eugene J ^a   Flieder, Douglas B ^b   Matsubara, Osamu ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

bronchiolitis; capillaritis; corticosteroids; cyclophospham ide; palisading granuloma; vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FIBRIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CAPILLARY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TISSUE REACTION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0030897303     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(97)90034-4     Document Type: Article

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