A man with interstitial pneumonia due to propylthiouracil

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1026-1030

  Ohwada, Rina ^a   Kato, Keiko ^a   Ohmori, Kazue ^a   Isozaki, Osamu ^a   Hotta, Mari ^b   Ono, Masami ^a   Takano, Kazue ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA); Graves' disease; Interstitial pneumonia; Myeloperoxydase; Propylthiouracil

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; IODINE 131; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0242690887     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.1026     Document Type: Article

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