Case 3-2003: A 36-year-old man with renal failure, hypertension, and neurologic abnormalities

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-342

  Coblyn, Jonathan S ^a   McCluskey, Robert T ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; LABETALOL; PHENYTOIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEPATITIS B; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULITIS; BLOOD; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; MITRAL VALVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINURIA;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PROTEINURIA; SEIZURES; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0037461602     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020116     Document Type: Article

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