Transient joint effusion: A forgotten side effect of high dose corticosteroid treatment [4]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 491-492

  Schiavon, F ^a  

^a Division of Rheumatology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROCENTESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JOINT EFFUSION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRARTHROSIS; KNEE JOINT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0037405608     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.5.491     Document Type: Letter

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