Clinical and laboratory characteristics of drug-induced vasculitic syndromes

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 191-192

  Wiik, Allan ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARBIMAZOLE; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; HISTONE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYELOBLASTIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTICARDIOLIPIN; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; METHIMAZOLE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SKIN; THROMBOPHILIA; VASCULITIS, HYPERSENSITIVITY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 25144513504     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar1805     Document Type: Article

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