A treatment algorithm for autoimmune myasthenia in adults

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 753-768

  Keesey, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; EDROPHONIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ALGORITHM; ALOPECIA; ANOREXIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; DIET; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; VOMITING;

EID: 0031903148     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11014.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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