Microscopic polyangiitis presenting as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Is anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody testing indicated?

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 321, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-202

  Mansi, Ishak A ^a   Opran, Adriana ^a,b   Sondhi, Damanpaul ^a   Ayinla, Raji ^a   Rosner, Fred ^a,b  

^a QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA); Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Microscopic polyangiitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0035097931     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200103000-00009     Document Type: Article

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