Treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis with immune globulin: CNS involvement in an adolescent female

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1055-1059

  Taylor, Charles T ^a,b   Buring, Shauna M ^d   Taylor, Kelly H ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Immune globulin; Vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0032834908     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.18439     Document Type: Article

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