Multiple pulmonary arterial aneurysms in Behçet's disease: Clinical and radiologic remission after cyclophosphamide and corticosteroid therapy

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 178-181

  Aktoǧu, Serir ^a,b   Erer, Onur Fevzi ^a   Ürpek, Gülcan ^a   Soy, Ömer ^a   Tibet, Gültekin ^a  

^a Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Izmir Training Hospital for Thoracic Medicine and Surgery ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Beh et's disease; Pulmonary arteries; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEFLAZACORT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG HILUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALAISE; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; REMISSION; SURVIVAL; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BEHCET SYNDROME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PREGNENEDIONES; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 0036222873     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056324     Document Type: Article

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