A case of necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis with arteritis due to secondary amyloidosis following rheumatoid arthritis

Japanese Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 421-425

  Watanabe, Mitsumasa ^a   Ono, Takahiko ^a   Nogaki, Fumiaki ^a   Sakurai, Mari ^a   Kawamura, Takahide ^a   Suyama, Katsuo ^a   Kamata, Tadashi ^a   Oyama, Atsushi ^a   Muso, Eri ^a   Sasayama, Shigetake ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Necrotizing cresentic glomerulonephritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Secondary amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTERITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 0031136982     PISSN: 03852385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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