Polymyositis with respiratory muscle weakness requiring mechanical ventilation in a patient with metastatic thymoma treated with octreotide

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 973-979

  Rini, B I ^a   Gajewski, Th F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Octreotide; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Polymyositis; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; ILLICIT DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OCTREOTIDE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREATHING MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HUMAN; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; METASTASIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYMOMA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; OCTREOTIDE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POLYMYOSITIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0032884292     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008321802223     Document Type: Article

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