Complete resolution of fibrosing mediastinitis with corticosteroid therapy [3]

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 749-750

  Lal, Chitra ^a   Weiman, Darryl ^a   Eltorky, Mahmoud ^a   Pugazhenthi, Muthiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FIBROSING MEDIASTINITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; STERNOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044436191     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000168656.75306.24     Document Type: Letter

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