Vasculitic Wallenberg syndrome with detection of anti-proteinase 3 antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with severe Wegener's granulomatosis and only mild kidney involvement

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 893-896

  Faust, Justus ^a   Visbeck, Anke ^a   Fitzek, Sabine ^a   Fitzek, Clemens ^a   Orth, Thomas ^a   Wandel, Eveline ^a   Mayet, Werner J ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ANCA; Proteinase 3; Vasculitic neurological involvement; Wallenberg syndrome; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCER; WALLENBERG SYNDROME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0034023865     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.6.893     Document Type: Article

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