Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura, autoimmune hemolytic anemia and gastric cancer appeared in a patient with myasthenia gravis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 479-481

  Wakata, Nobuo ^a   Kiyozuka, Tetsuhito ^a   Konno, Singo ^a   Nakazora, Hiroshi ^a   Nomoto, Nobuatsu ^a   Sugimoto, Hideki ^a   Nemoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura; Gastric cancer; Myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; JAUNDICE; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TRAINING; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 33646416474     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1496     Document Type: Article

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