Difficult to diagnose manifestations of vasculitis: Does an interdisciplinary approach help?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 243-261

  Hellmich, Bernhard ^a   Gross, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Central nervous system; Diagnosis; Lung; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEMATURIA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MONONEUROPATHY MULTIPLEX; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 17644366762     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2004.10.004     Document Type: Review

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