Temporal arteritis masquerading as chronic myelomonocytic leukemia [15]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 685-686

  Rizos, E ^a   Dimos, G ^a   Milionis, H J ^a   Elisaf, Moses S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; PREDNISONE; QUINAPRIL;

AGED; ARTHRITIS; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MALE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 0141884176     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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