Chronic lupus peritonitis with massive ascites at elderly onset: Case report and review of the literature

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1056-1061

  Ito, Hiroyuki ^a   Nanamiya, Wakako ^a   Kuroda, Naoto ^a   Inoue, Mari ^a   Sasaoka, Atsushi ^a   Chijiwa, Tatsumi ^a   Nishiya, Koji ^a   Hashimoto, Kozo ^a   Nakagawa, Osamu ^b  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b San Ai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Pericarditis; Pleuritis; Serositis; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENT; DIURETIC AGENT; DNA ANTIBODY; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PERITONITIS; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PERITONITIS;

EID: 0036858759     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.1056     Document Type: Article

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