Clinico-laboratory characteristics of patients with dermatomyositis accompanied by rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 462-467

  Ito, M ^a   Kaise, S ^a   Suzuki, S ^a   Kazuta, Y ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Miyata, M ^a   Nishimaki, T ^a   Nakamura, N ^a   Kasukawa, R ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; CD4+ CD8+ ratio; CK LDH ratio; Dermatomyositis; Muscle weakness; Rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HLA DR ANTIGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CREATINE KINASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033398130     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100670050139     Document Type: Article

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