Superior vena cava thrombosis and chylothorax in a young patient

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 SUPPL 38, 2005, Pages

  Balbir Gurman, Alexandra ^a   Guralnick, L ^a   Best, L A ^a   Nahir, A M ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; PREDNISONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARAB; ARM EDEMA; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; MOUTH ULCER; NECK EDEMA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA THROMBOSIS; TACHYCARDIA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX ORGAN RUPTURE; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; PATHOLOGY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AZATHIOPRINE; BEHCET SYNDROME; CHYLOTHORAX; COLCHICINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDNISOLONE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 33644809718     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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