Pseudotumoral retroperitoneal fibrosis and localized vasculitis with very high serum levels of anti-PR3 ANCA [3]

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 250b-252

  Aslangul, Elisabeth ^a   Ranque, Brigitte ^a   Papo, Thomas ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BONE BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; VASCULITIS; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; PELVIS; PELVIS TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYELOBLASTIN; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; PREDNISONE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0041912488     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(03)00284-5     Document Type: Letter

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