Churg-Strauss syndrome with cutaneous and neurological manifestations preceding asthma [7]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-68

  Kawakami, Tamihiro ^a   Soma, Yoshinao ^a   Hosaka, Eri ^a   Mizoguchi, Masako ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; PREDNISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SKIN DEFECT; BLOOD; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; PARESTHESIA; PURPURA;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PREDNISONE; PURPURA;

EID: 33744769684     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550510040031     Document Type: Letter

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