Autoimmune diseases in a Nigerian woman - A case report

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-363

  Talabi, O A ^a   Owolabi, M O ^a   Osotimehin, B O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Autoimmune; Disease; Index; Spectrum; Suspicion

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; DICLOFENAC; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; GLUCOSE; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADDISON DISEASE; AGED; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; GRAVES DISEASE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KNEE PAIN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORNING STIFFNESS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NIGERIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEMPHIGUS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEIZURE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOMA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VITILIGO; VOMITING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NIGERIA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VITILIGO;

EID: 2342563155     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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