Takayasu's arteritis accompanied with massive pericardial effusion - A case report

Angiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 421-425

  Narita, Hitomi ^a   Ohte, Nobuyuki ^b   Yoneyama, Akihiko ^a   Hashimoto, Takeshi ^b   Akita, Sachie ^b   Sakuma, Nagahiko ^b  

^a Nagoya City Rehabilitation   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALAISE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0032895755     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905000509     Document Type: Article

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