Early autoimmune complications after thymomectomy in a patient with interstitial lung disease: Case report

Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Gonlugur, Ugur ^a   Sahin, E ^a   Yildiz, E ^a   Gonlugur, Tanseli E ^b  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Sivas Devlet Hastanesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Myastenia gravis; Pancytopenia; Thymectomy; Thymoma; Thymomectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FATALITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPSIS; STERNUM; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PANCYTOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SEPSIS; STERNUM; STEROIDS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33745006185     PISSN: 12178950     EISSN: 15882640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AMicr.53.2006.1.8     Document Type: Article

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