Lymphomatoid granulomatosis: A rare mimicker of vasculitis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2242-2245

  Wu, Sherry M ^a,b   Min, Yoon ^a,c   Ostrzega, Nora ^a,c   Clements, Philip J ^a,c   Wong, Andrew L ^a,d  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA San Fernando Valley Program   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoma; Lymphomatoid granulomatosis; Polyarthritis Nodosa; Systemic Vasculitis; Wegener's Granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; LANSOPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOPSY; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HISPANIC; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MALE; MESENTERY TUMOR; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NERVE BIOPSY; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 27744438964     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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