Remission of Hepatitis B Virus-Related Vasculitis with Lamivudine [7]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 672-673

  Sawabe, Takuya ^a   Uenotsuchi, Takeshi ^a   Imafuku, Shinichi ^a   Kohno, Hiroshi ^a   Arima, Junichi ^a   Horiuchi, Takahiko ^b  

^a ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIVUDINE; NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAVASIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS RELATED VASCULITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SKIN ULCER; VASCULITIS; VIRUS EXAMINATION;

EID: 16544375031     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-8-200404200-00035     Document Type: Letter

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