Polymyositis and cutaneous vasculitis in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 639-642

  Maeda, Yoshihisa ^a   Arakawa, Kenji ^a   Araki, Eiichi ^a   Kikuchi, Hitoshi ^a   Ikezoe, Koji ^b   Taniwaki, Takayuki ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid immunosuppressant; Cutaneous vasculitis; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Polymyositis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYMYOSITIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VASCULITIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POLYMYOSITIS; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0032885969     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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