Good's syndrome presenting with cytomegalovirus pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1094-1096

  Ide, Soichiro ^a   Koga, Takeharu ^a   Rikimaru, Toru ^a   Katsuki, Yoshio ^a   Oizumi, Kotaro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypogammaglobulinemia; Immunodeficiency; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SYNDROME; THYMOMA; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANTIBODY FORMATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISOLONE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SYNDROME; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034571362     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.1094     Document Type: Article

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