Gastrointestinal small vessel vasculitis in a patient with crescentic glomerulonephritis and longstanding idiopathic neutropaenia treated with G-CSF [5]

Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-183

  Hill, Prudence A ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038289008     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313020307583     Document Type: Letter

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