Fatal Methotrexate-Induced Pneumonitis in A Psoriatic Patient

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 298-300

  Mazokopakis, Elias ^a,b   Katsogridakis, Konstantinos ^a   Koutsopoulos, Anastasios ^c   Voloudaki, Argyro ^a   Froudarakis, Marios ^a   Kritikos, Hercules ^a   Vrentzos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b Naval Hospital of Crete   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FOLIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG FATALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1842853149     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.4.298     Document Type: Article

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