Hemichorea with antiphospholipid antibodies in a patient with lupus nephritis

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-453

  Watanabe, Toru ^a   Onda, Hiroo ^a  

^a NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Brain disease; Central nervous system; Cerebral infarction; Chorea; Systemic lupus erythematosis

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIZORIBINE; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KNEE PAIN; LABORATORY TEST; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEINURIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINALYSIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BRAIN; CHILD; CHOREA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RIBONUCLEOSIDES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842738462     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-003-1388-6     Document Type: Article

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