Takayasu arteritis presenting as a recurrent respiratory tract infection: A diagnosis facilitated by bedside echocardiography and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 170-171

  Gerhardt, Robert T ^a   De Lorenzo, Robert A ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0036178790     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.2.170     Document Type: Article

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