Dry cough as first manifestation of giant-cell arteritis [14]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1957-1958

  Karagiannis, Asterios ^a   Mathiopoulou, Lemonia ^a   Tziomalos, Konstantinos ^a   Kontotasios, Konstantinos ^a   Skaperdas, Athanasios ^a   Florentin, Matilda ^a   Amplianitis, Ioannis K ^a   Athyros, Vasilios G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ALFACALCIDOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHLORTALIDONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DRY COUGH; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FROZEN SHOULDER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; NECK PAIN; SHOULDER PAIN; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COUGH; HUMANS; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 33845480121     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00960.x     Document Type: Letter

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