Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in an elderly patient with primary Sjögren's syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1312-1315

  Kikawada, Masayuki ^a   Watanabe, Daisuke ^a   Kimura, Akihiro ^a   Hanyu, Haruo ^a   Serizawa, Hiromi ^a   Iwamoto, Toshihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Elderly; Hematological abnormalities; Primary Sj gren's syndrome

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACRIMAL GLAND; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; RARE DISEASE; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; BIOPSY; COOMBS' TEST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 31444439765     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1312     Document Type: Article

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