Microscopic polyangiitis atypically presenting with tubulointerstitial nephritis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 356-360

  Wen, Y K ^a   Chen, M L ^a  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA); Microscopic polyangiitis; Systemic vasculitis; Tubulointerstitial nephritis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEINURIA; PURPURA; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646385619     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/CNP65356     Document Type: Article

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