Successful resection of rectal carcinoma in an Evans' syndrome patient followed by predonisolone and high-dose immunoglobulin: Report of a case

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 253-257

  Nakao, Atsunori ^a   Iwagaki, Hiromi ^a   Notohara, Kenji ^a   Morimoto, Yushinori ^a   Ariki, Norifumi ^a   Kanagawa, Taiichiro ^a   Isozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Immune thrombocytopenia; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; PREDNISOLONE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0035434188     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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