Systemic vasculitis: Diagnostic clues to this confusing array of diseases

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 68-86

  Bush, Thomas M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTHRALGIA; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DRUG EXPOSURE; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALAISE; MORBIDITY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; RASH; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0031884214     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.02.309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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