Recurrent Pleural and Pericardial Effusions Due to Sarcoidosis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 0214-0215

  Navaneethan, Sankar D ^a   Venkatesh, Sundar ^a   Shrivastava, Rakesh ^a   Mehta, Jagat ^a   Israel, Robert ^a  

^a UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 18244367870     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020063     Document Type: Article

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