Polymyalgia rheumatica and malignancy: The question remains open [5]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 355-356

  Antón, Enrique ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE ZUMÁRRAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BARIUM ENEMA; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; TEMPORAL ARTERY; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; NOTE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA;

EID: 15044342268     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53126_5.x     Document Type: Letter

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