Acute vasculitis with multiorgan involvement in a patient with familial mediterranean fever

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 325, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 363-364

  Braun, Eyal ^a   Schapira, Daniel ^a   Guralnik, Ludmila ^a   Azzam, Zaher S ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Familial Mediterranean fever; Pulmonary hemorrhage; Systemic vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEROID THERAPY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0038517694     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200306000-00007     Document Type: Article

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