Patients hospitalized because of small vessel vasculitides with renal involvement in the period 1975-95: Organ involvement, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies patterns, seasonal attack rates and fluctuation of annual frequencies

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Tidman, M ^a   Olander, R ^a   Svalander, C ^b   Danielsson, D ^a  

^a ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ANCA; Epidemiology; Frequencies; Seasonal variation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WINTER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0031904070     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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