A rare case of dermatomyositis associated with immune-complex type glomerulo-nephritis, idiopathic thrombopenic purpura, pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer [4]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 801-802

  Kaneoka, Hidetoshi ^a   Sasatomi, Y ^a   Miyagi, K ^b   Kiyoshi, Y ^a   Takeda, S ^a   Takebayashi, S ^a   Naito, S ^a   Saito, T ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AUTOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 0348149022     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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